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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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However, this was challenging to implement as Godot runs the game as a separate process from the editor for two reasons: The game process uses its own address space and therefore doesnt have to share CPU/GPU resources with the editor (or at least, not as much as if it was the same process).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 ). The experience should be much better already in beta 3.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. It also has more useful built-in data types such as integer vectors. Core engine. Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine?

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. Editor: Fix editor crash when exporting profiler data ( GH-48917 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). Core: Add an option to make the project data directory non-hidden ( GH-52556 , GH-53779 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). Core: Add an option to make the project data directory non-hidden ( GH-52556 , GH-53779 ).

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