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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

The cover illustration is from WEBFISHING , a multiplayer online casual fishing game where you relax, hang out, make friends, and catch fish! You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the development on Twitter. is jam-packed with new features despite having a much shorter development period than 4.3. development cycle.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The cover illustration is from Ballionaire , a roguelike pachinko simulator where the laws of physics bend to your will, developed by newobject and published by Raw Fury! You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky and itch.io. Highlights For an overview of whats new overall in Godot 4.4, Donate now

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Beta Dev Baking Render

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Often developers need to implement rendering techniques, post processing effects, etc. that don’t come bundled with the engine. Or even more.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). Easy to use.

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Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early Access, delivering the next-generation engine from Epic Games that will further propel the industry forward. The RTX games that have been released over the last three years, including Fortnite , Metro Exodus and Cyberpunk 2077 , have stepped us closer to this vision.

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Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Content

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own.

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Beta Lightmap Render Animation

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

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. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

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Lightmap Baking Bug Data

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). As we are still in the early beta phase of development, there are still many issues to fix, some of which have already been reported and are being worked on.

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Beta Dev Render Bug

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures).

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Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 3D: Add support for saving lightmap as multiple images ( GH-61861 ). As we are still in the alpha phase of development, there are still many issues to fix, some of which have already been reported and are being worked on. milestone.

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Alpha Dev Terrain Bug

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3 , after more than 7 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

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Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 It's also very easy to use.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). As we are still in the early beta phase of development, there are still many issues to fix, some of which have already been reported and are being worked on.

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Beta Dev Render Bug

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

In short, Unity Cinemachine opens up an entirely new world of opportunities for animation, game design and development, and directors working with virtual cameras. In short, the Unity Cinemachine is a game-changer. It’s the same as with any new technological development. What Is Unity Cinemachine?

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

After a bit more than one year of work, the Godot developers and contributors are delighted to get their new release out the door, Godot 3.1 ! was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. Use baked lightmaps instead. Documentation.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! with a new project to test out exciting new features and provide valuable feedback to the development team before 4.0 It has been a long road to Godot 4.0 is set in stone.

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Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 if something that worked fine in 3.3.3

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Lighting changes in the game as you play, making the environment more interactive. This makes the game run faster since it doesn’t need to calculate the lighting all the time. Learn the lighting features in your game engine and explore software like Unreal Engine, Unity, or Blender. Learn Lighting Software.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

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

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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