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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. 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.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Woah, another beta build already? If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. With some further fixes like GH-102424 , GH-102497 , and GH-102477 , lightmap baking got a nice upgrade in this snapshot. The experience should be much better already in beta 3.

Beta 76
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Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more. Operating the build environment. Overview of solution.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

(engine#14218) [XR] AR engine module update Fix shadowmap lowp with huawei and reflection probe brightness (engine#14058) Fix shader compilation error with the new version of lightmap (engine#14071) Fix unsynchronized model data issue when adding lod levels dynamically (engine#14054) Fix the issue that lod is not working properly when forced to use (..)

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. stable: Android: Remove -fno-integrated-as , it can break arm64v8 build ( GH-48851 ). HTML5: Fix GDNative build with Emscripten 2.0.19+ ( GH-48831 ). Windows: Fix Embree crash when building with MinGW ( GH-48888 ). If you're upgrading from Godot 3.3-stable,

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Godot, on the other hand, serves as an excellent platform to build upon, as it solves the vast majority of problems already.

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

you only need to select the x86 architecture and the InputSDK option when building for Android to meet the platform requirements of Google Play Games on PC. While for others, we will support Play Games on PC starting from version 3.8, AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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