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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). It means that assets are pulled from disk on demand (loaded only at the time they are needed), rather than as a part of a larger stage.

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

While for others, we will support Play Games on PC starting from version 3.8, you only need to select the x86 architecture and the InputSDK option when building for Android to meet the platform requirements of Google Play Games on PC. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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The Convergence of all Entertainment

Game Dev Unchained

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. You are now a valuable asset that can utilize the same toolset that you have obtained throughout your career and am able to jump to other mediums like movies, architecture, and advertisement seamlessly. Scott Knapp.

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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

As shown in the picture above, when you open the Cocos Cyberpunk project, you will see the folders in the Assets window at the left bottom corner of Cocos Creator. 2、LightFX The lightmaps generated by the Lightmap Baking System will be automatically stored in this folder, and there is no need to manually modify the contents inside it.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 asset workflow. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. has changed how the assets pipeline work.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. More rendering improvements. Import presets configuration. x (and possibly 3.3.x)

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Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more.

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