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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Most importantly, if the game crashes for any reason, the editor does not crash at the same time (which could cause data loss). 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

From Sketch to Screen: The Evolution of Game Art Pipelines

iXie gaming

JULY 11, 2025

Modeling : Building 3D meshes in tools like Maya or Blender, with attention to poly count and topology for animation compatibility. Lighting and Rendering : Designing lighting setups, often pre-baked, that enhance mood and performance across platforms. Adobe Firefly : Text-to-texture generation enables quick variations.

Art

Art AI Asset Concepts

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Key Components of Multiplayer Games in Unity Networking: Manages data transmission between clients and servers. Optimizing bandwidth usage through data compression and server load balancing is crucial for large-scale multiplayer experiences. Synchronization: Ensures that game states remain consistent across all clients. What worked?

Games

Games Texture Render Culling

What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

LOD helps to manage the computational requirements of rendering complex scenes (essentially reducing the file size/amount of data of the 3D model), allowing for smoother and more efficient performance while preserving visual quality.

Software

Software Polygon Baking Texture Mapping

Animation data rework for 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2021

has now been completed, resulting in much improved usability when dealing animation data. Animation data. While there are upcoming improvements on the general animation system, one key aspect that required a strong redesign and subsequent rework in Godot is the way that animation data is stored.

Animation

Animation Animation Data Alpha

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Lightmapper looks pretty nice: Of course, GIProbe still has the advantages of being real-time, easier to set up (no unwrap or bake), supports rough refletions (which look great), and light affects dynamic objects more accurately.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Fixed an issue where the setter for the Mesh:: _ hash attribute was not bound. Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. The native platform supports main.js build templates.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Navigation Server for Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Runtime navigation mesh baking. Now the NavigationRegion can be added during gameplay, and it's possible to change its transform or even bake the navigation mesh data at runtime. You can compose the NavigationRegion as you like, mine looks like this: Note: The meshes have a common static body under their node.

Agent

Agent Collision Baking Mesh

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Editor: Fix editor crash when exporting profiler data ( GH-48917 ). when exiting a project running from a ZIP data pack. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now

Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. Inexact Shadows (beta) Deals with potential mesh mismatches of ray traced and raster geometry. Enables approximations that improve performance in the management of ray tracing data.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Pushing Unity to the Limit: How to Optimize Performance for AAA-Quality Gameplay

iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Geometry: Build with LODs from the start, batch static meshes, and constrain polycounts based on hardware targets. Reduce variants, embrace GPU instancing, and bake lighting when possible. Budget them like you would any feature, and when possible, bake effects directly into scene assets.

AAA

AAA Asset Texture Baking

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

By adding a simple cache to it, we made it so that light map texture coordinates are only computed when there's an actual change to the geometry of the mesh. Here you can see the Sponza demo model, with baked direct lighting, and the corresponding light map: Note that this first pass is not taking occlusion into account yet.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Texture

Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Version 1.1.30 allows developers to enable, disable, and rotate individual DDGI volumes.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Graphics Render Technology

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

You can even store cinematography data so it doesn’t need to be coded directly to the Unity camera you are currently using. You have to pay for extra plug-ins to export, for example, FBX meshes out of an engine. As of yet, there is no distributed baking. This basically means you can only bake lightmaps using a single machine.

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES3: Ensure that color values in Reinhard tonemapping are positive ( GH-42056 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES3: Ensure that color values in Reinhard tonemapping are positive ( GH-42056 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES3: Ensure that color values in Reinhard tonemapping are positive ( GH-42056 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

From Sketch to Screen: The Evolution of Game Art Pipelines

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

Animation data rework for 4.0

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Navigation Server for Godot 4.0

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Pushing Unity to the Limit: How to Optimize Performance for AAA-Quality Gameplay

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

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