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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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This means contributors are encouraged to focus their efforts on fixing regressions and other outstanding bugs. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. and begin preparing for 4.5.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

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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 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs.

Beta 77
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

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A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

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fixes many bugs that were found by the staff and developers when upgrading to 3.7. Cocos Creator 3.7.1 We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. We also have added a new demo project that will share many of the new upgrades that have come with 3.7 and previous updates. You can download it from the Cocos Store.

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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

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release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. After that, depending on the state of things, we will evaluate if I add some extra features such as TAA and proxy volumes for static lights, or we leave them for future releases and I switch to bug fixing and stabilization of the renderer.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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Also, there are some bugs to be fixed. Test the implement features and fix bugs. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Previously every LightmapGI node used to store its lightmap atlas in a single large image. Multi window code editors. Student: trollodel.