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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. First of all, most of the new features still have significant bugs and performance problems that will not be solved in time for the upcoming 4.0

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2 and 3.2.1.

Beta

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds. Portal occlusion culling. Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

branch is worked on in parallel and receives minor updates to fix bugs, improve usability and occasionally add some compatible features. Among a wide array of bug fixes to the GLES2 and GLES3 renderer, they also designed and implemented a 2D batching system for GLES2 , which greatly optimizes the 2D rendering performance in many situations.

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Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, Since then, smix8 has taken over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ) and lawnjelly. Early adopters of 3.5

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The goal between now and the stable release will be to continue polishing the current feature set by fixing bugs and optimizing performance. We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0, We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0,

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility. x), we're going back to a stricter application of semantic versioning and those releases will only contain bug fixes and usability/documentation improvements. Various light culling fixes. When we released Godot 3.2

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

release, we decided to take the chance to look at our long list of features and bug fixes that could not be implemented because it involved breaking compatibility. It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. A year ago, we decided to skip the release of Godot 2.2

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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