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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 ended up making it into 4.4

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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). This is handled nowadays by a type of technology called “streaming”. Few other technologies work as well in this area.

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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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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

Materials and shaders. 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. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI).

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. So you can expect Godot 3.3.1 Supporting the project.

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

As always, please remember that we are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Visual shader editor. Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). Download Godot 3.1

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