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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

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The use of simple colliders should include box and sphere types instead of complex mesh colliders to minimize processing requirements. The utilization of Baked Lighting for static region precomputation results in enhanced runtime performance.

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Navigation Server for Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

Runtime navigation mesh baking. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of "servers" used in the Godot architecture, you can refer to this past devblog and the documentation. Some new concepts appeared in the Godot world - let's talk about these to get a good overview. Runtime baking. What's new.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

This meant that the larger scenes might refuse to bake because they don't fit within the size limits of an image. This will be a draw mode that previews the texel density of lightmaps (without actually (re)baking them). I have created a crude proof of concept for this. Project overview and progress. Multi-image atlases.

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Animation data rework for 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

In game engines (or even when exported from the 3D modelling application), animation data is baked to a simpler representation because, for games, processing beziers and IKs is way too expensive for real-time. Just decoding the animation, however, is not enough. This is key to having character customization or equippable items. They now do.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.

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