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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

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

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

Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The two big changes I made were the texturing and the monster placement / player flow. One of my big motivations was to use Makkon's updated textures. Yet as I aligned the 100th trim texture on a brush, I wondered whether my level was also anti-brutalist in its own way. Maybe it wasn't such a bad map after all?

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Texture Fighting Lightmap Render

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). The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default.

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AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Developer Notes Engine Add more API docs (engine#13937, engine#14079, engine#14088) [Optimize] add image asset’s zh i18n (engine#14108) [Optimize] Add pointerlock function for mac platform (engine#14187) [Pipeline] enable custom pipeline in the editor (engine#14084) [Pipeline] add native pipeline ubo uploading (engine#14061) [Pipeline] Fix web-pipeline (..)

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Lightmap Engineering Engine Mesh

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

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. Still, the disadvantage is that it will increase the lightmap package.

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Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

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. Fixed error caused by removeSpotLight on native platforms. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain.

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Terrain Render Simulation Texture

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

The purpose of developing Cocos Cyberpunk is to showcase the Cocos Engine’s ability to create complex 3D games on multiple platforms and to motivate the developers in Cocos community to learn game development. 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.

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Code Culling Lightmap Render

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

This will enable us to publish maintenance updates at a faster pace as soon as we identify a need (critical regressions to fix, security issues, necessary platform updates, etc.). Platforms: Godot editor on the Web! One notable change is that there is now support for both threads and GDNative in the HTML5 platform port.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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. Godot will pick the right compression for textures when importing for mobile, and supply them over the network. It's also very easy to use.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 ).

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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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 ).

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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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 ).

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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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Incompatibilities in the HTML5 platform, as not all browsers support WebGL 2.0 (the Use baked lightmaps instead. is not a fallback but a different platform you should target your game for. Additionally, a noise texture can now be used as a resource, which generates noise on the fly. GIProbes of course don't work.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. Currently, mobile and web platforms are not available, with support likely coming in Godot 4.1. also comes with a fully working headless mode (no rendering or audio output, supported on all platforms!), Web platform.

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Beta Engineering Engine Feature

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