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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

Beta 106
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Navigation Server for Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

Runtime navigation mesh baking. Now the NavigationRegion can be added during gameplay, and it's possible to change its transform or even bake the navigation mesh data at runtime. You can compose the NavigationRegion as you like, mine looks like this: Note: The meshes have a common static body under their node.

Agent 52
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). Add expand modes to TextureRect ( GH-58517 ).

Beta 110
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). Add expand modes to TextureRect ( GH-58517 ).

Beta 85
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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. Will write an article about this soon. SDFGI is mostly leak free, unlike VCT techniques which are the most common in use today (like SVOGI/GIProbe/etc). How do you use it? How does it work?

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

Look at these shiny highlights: 2D physics interpolation 2D hierarchical culling Mesh merging Discrete level of detail (LOD) ORM materials Text to speech Arctic Eggs This game about cooking eggs in a cold climate found great reception on the internet. The feature freeze for 3.6

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta 52