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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! development cycle. New in Beta 1!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Shaders: Fix source_color default value ( GH-101642 ). Donate now

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

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). Often developers need to implement rendering techniques, post processing effects, etc. Additionally, Godot 4.0 Specialized artist UIs.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

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). lightmapper.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. 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). The smaller this value, the bigger the lightmaps will be.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ).

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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

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.