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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

GH-94783 ) Change NavigationMesh to also parse collision shapes by default. This is part of an effort to encourage users to use collision shapes for NavigationMesh instead of visual meshes as collision shapes are much simpler and thus more efficient for Navigation. ( GH-95013 ) XR: Disable hand tracking by default.

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Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Before going into optimizing for multiple threads, let's first take a look at the typical order of execution of the main blocks of a game engine. Research on game engine optimization for multiple threads at the time resulted in documentation and papers for a new technique named job scheduling.

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Atari ST Programming: A Simple Game in STOS

Retro Game Coders

Now we can move sprites in STOS we need to put things together to see how we can actually begin creating playable games. Along the way we will look at some more new features and concepts so you can understand more of how STOS works versus programming languages and game engines you might be used to. Full Demo Game Code.

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Unity DOTS for Beginners

Game Designing

The Unity game engine is a powerful and versatile tool for developing games and applications for diverse platforms, including consoles, mobile devices, and personal computers. It offers a robust technology that’s become popular among game developers regardless of skill level. What Is Unity?

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

A long-standing Bullet regression has finally been fixed ( GH-56801 ), solving issues with KinematicBody collisions on edges (e.g. The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

To help with the common task of accessing specific nodes from scripts, Juan Linietsky ( reduz ) added the concept of "scene unique names" for nodes in the master branch ( GH-60298 ), and Tomasz backported it for 3.5. Physics: Bullet: KinematicBody compound shape collision fix ( GH-56801 ). Scene unique nodes ( GH-60527 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

To help with the common task of accessing specific nodes from scripts, Juan Linietsky ( reduz ) added the concept of "scene unique names" for nodes in the master branch ( GH-60298 ), and Tomasz backported it for 3.5. Physics: Bullet: KinematicBody compound shape collision fix ( GH-56801 ). Scene unique nodes ( GH-60527 ).

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