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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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). 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 ).

Beta 110
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New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. To solve this, it is now possible to emit particles manually by calling a function from the script API: Sub-Emitters. Emitting particles manually is not only possible from script.

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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. Remember to hit the button Bake NavMesh to bake the navigation data, as you used to do in 3.x! Collision avoidance support. Navigation Agent.

Agent 52
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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. They’re related, but the difference is this: A game writer’s primary responsibility is to promote the story that the game tells through the scripts they write. Creative writing. Technical writing.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts. Student: trollodel.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). 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 ).

Beta 85