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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

This officially marks the start of feature freeze for 4.4. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 The cover illustration is from WEBFISHING , a multiplayer online casual fishing game where you relax, hang out, make friends, and catch fish! release cycle. and begin preparing for 4.5.

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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 ). feature release. 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

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. 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.). is coming out soon. improvements. reaches stability.

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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. Features of the new Godot 4.0 The lightmapper in Godot 3.2

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. now and keep on reading about the great features added in this version. New features. As a result, Godot 3.1

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

Nvidia

Unreal Engine is used by more than 11 million creators, making it one of the most popular game engines in the world, and one that continuously pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with real-time technology.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Upgrade Android gradle plugin to version 7.2.1 ( GH-68497 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

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