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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 ended up making it into 4.4 meaning that Godot 4.4

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). Core engine. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas. GDExtension.

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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.

Lightmap

Lightmap Engine Engineering Mesh

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. 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. Download Links (Ver. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

Beta

Beta Lightmap Render Animation

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Fixed Byte Platform iPad screen display is not complete. Fixed Labelchar mode color anomaly on native platforms. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

new Quake map: There's a Certain Slant of Light

Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Technically from a game engine / rendering perspective, any use of textures is ornament. I'm proud of this moment, leveraging some recent dynamic lightmap tech built into Copper. Then there's only one place left to go: a platform near the starting point, with the gold key floating beneath an unusual ornament.

Texture

Texture Fighting Lightmap Render

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed bone animation texture size error on some platforms that don’t support float point texture format. Fixed memory management issue of BakedSkinningModel on native platforms.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

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 New audio engine. GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. This series of articles could be treated as a project guide to the Cocos Cyberpunk that is intended to help you and save your time.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The 'server' platform is back as it was in Godot 2.1. Another new CLI option is --quit which will quit the engine after the first main loop iteration. A button has been added to the debugger to copy the error messages, useful for pasting them in bug reports or other community platforms. This is helpful for CI pipelines.

Beta

Beta Bug Lightmap Build

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Use baked lightmaps instead.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ). Core: Allow for platform Thread implementation override ( GH-52734 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

They won the Technology and Engineering Emmy® award for excellence and engineering creativity. Yes, Cinemachine is a plug-in for Unity, but what makes this plug-in great for this platform is the fact there are many other plug-ins to choose from that can work seamlessly with Cinemachine. There are plenty of plug-ins to consider.

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

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