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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

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. This integration ensures developers targeting macOS or iOS can achieve excellent rendering quality and performance on supported Apple hardware. development cycle.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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). Mesh streaming : Models are loaded as low detail (few vertices). Mesh resource for each pass of the particle. Or even more.

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The biggest challenge of this workflow is not the lightmap itself, but the fact that it should be easy to use (which is Godot's #1 design priority). Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile. First of all, you need to make sure your meshes have an UV2 layer. How does it look?

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Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

fixes many bugs that were found by the staff and developers when upgrading to 3.7. Cocos Creator 3.7.1 We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. We also have added a new demo project that will share many of the new upgrades that have come with 3.7 and previous updates. You can download it from the Cocos Store.

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Lightmap Engine Engineering Mesh

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, API documentation updates.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). What can it do? How do you use it?

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

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). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

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. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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! No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It is now possible to scale an.obj mesh when importing. The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. and 3.0), and the feature development happens on the master branch which will become the 3.1 This is helpful for CI pipelines. This is also helpful for CI pipelines.

Beta

Beta Bug Lightmap Build

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 ! Donations have played a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace. Use baked lightmaps instead. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

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Feature Render Editing Shaders

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. It completely transforms the landscape of game development, digital animation, and especially in-game camera systems. What Is Unity Cinemachine?

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Animation Animation Code Software

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.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh. Done May 2018. enviroment relections. cubemap filtering. implement BRDF. omni lights.

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Pixel Texture Render Shaders

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

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