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APRIL 4, 2025

Through Occlusion Culling the performance improves due to effective rendering of objects which extend past visible camera range. Open-world multiplayer games experience smooth performances when they implement LOD together with occlusion culling systems.

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. Up till now a significant missing feature in the renderer has been the ability to cull (prevent rendering) objects that are within the camera view, but occluded by another object (for instance a wall). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Extensive documentation will be available soon.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ). CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ). Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Core: Fix leaks and crashes in OAHashMap ( GH-38828 ). CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ). Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Core: Fix leaks and crashes in OAHashMap ( GH-38828 ). CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ). Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ). Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ). CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ).

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ). CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ). CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Mesh

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 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ). CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Various light culling fixes. Users of Visual Script and Visual Shaders, as well as developers relying on graphs in their game projects and editor plugins, will find this little UX improvement in Godot 3.3. One aspect of this was transform calculations and housekeeping, which has now been greatly reduced in hidden nodes.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

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