Baking, Content and Lightmap - Game Developers Network

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

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.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

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

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Nanite intelligently streams and processes only the detail you can perceive, largely removing poly count and draw call constraints, and eliminating time-consuming work like baking details to normal maps and manually authoring levels of detail. This allows users to focus less on tedious tasks and more on creativity.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engineering Engine Content

Essential Ray Tracing SDKs for Game and Professional Development

Nvidia

APRIL 1, 2021

Game and professional visualization developers need the best tools to create the best games and real-time interactive content. To help them achieve this goal, Game and professional visualization developers need the best tools to create the best games and real-time interactive content.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Development Baking Lightmap

The Convergence of all Entertainment

Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. We are are approaching a point where artists can change jobs seamlessly across all industries and the only thing that matters is the type of content we want to work with. Scott Knapp. Proceduralism in Games with Luiz Kruel | Episode 263.

Entertainment

Entertainment Lightmap Baking Technology

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

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. 5、scene The cube textures produced by the Reflection Probe baking system will be automatically saved in a folder specific to each scene.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed not being able to get input content in time for an input box on Android. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. . ● Fixed potential focus loss issue when switching the input box on iOS. Fixed possible obstruction of an OK button when the keyboard pops up on iOS.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x 3D editor improvements.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

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. If there isn’t appropriate IAM role, create it here.

Agent

Agent Build Console Communications

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. As mentioned above, 3.0 GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We also reached out to content creators from the Godot community and got two very nice videos from FinePointCGI and Bramwell covering what Godot 4.0 In this article we highlight some of the new features we are most excited about.

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). RichTextLabel: Honor content marging when drawing font shadow ( GH-54054 ). Label: Fix valign with stylebox borders ( GH-50478 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). RichTextLabel: Honor content marging when drawing font shadow ( GH-54054 ). Label: Fix valign with stylebox borders ( GH-50478 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Label: Fix valign with stylebox borders ( GH-50478 ). Linux: Fix implementation of move_to_trash ( GH-44021 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Label: Fix valign with stylebox borders ( GH-50478 ). Linux: Fix implementation of move_to_trash ( GH-44021 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Blurring is handled by using the contents of the frame after the last process. Prioritize the scene to use lightmap to bake AO so that even if HBAO is turned off, the effect is still not bad. The render function will be executed every frame, so you need to call context.clearBack() to clean up the background.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Pixel Render

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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

Trending Sources

Essential Ray Tracing SDKs for Game and Professional Development

The Convergence of all Entertainment

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

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

Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

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