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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

However, this was challenging to implement as Godot runs the game as a separate process from the editor for two reasons: The game process uses its own address space and therefore doesnt have to share CPU/GPU resources with the editor (or at least, not as much as if it was the same process).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmap baking improvements Clay John changed the logic for baking direct lighting in LightmapGI to spread it over multiple frames, avoiding a spike of computation that can lead the OS to trigger TDR , resulting in a crash of the GPU context ( GH-102257 ). Known issues During the beta stage, we focus on solving both regressions (i.e.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Bake UV2 emission using half float in the compatibility backend ( GH-101730 ). While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software. Physics: Add debug colours and fills to CollisionPolygon3D ( GH-101810 ).

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Animation data rework for 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

has now been completed, resulting in much improved usability when dealing animation data. Animation data. While there are upcoming improvements on the general animation system, one key aspect that required a strong redesign and subsequent rework in Godot is the way that animation data is stored.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. Editor: Fix editor crash when exporting profiler data ( GH-48917 ).

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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

The current Game Ready Driver (version 526.47) contains NVIDIA RTX IO technology, including optimizations for GDeflate. We want to encourage the quick embrace of GDeflate as a data-parallel compression standard, facilitating its adoption across the PC ecosystem and on other platforms. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Rendering: Initialize CPUParticles data on set_amount to prevent corruption of BVH space partitioning ( GH-66115 ).

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