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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Import 4.4

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

CG Spectrum

It helps reduce the amount of detail by simplifying polygons and textures as they get further away from the camera. Generally, the closer to camera, the more level of detail (surface details, textures, shadows, etc. These texture maps are then applied to the lower polygon count model to give it a more detailed and realistic appearance.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. Godot lightmapper works with one texture per mesh, so sharing UVs between meshes will not give you more optimization.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

. • Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

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.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

Fixed bone animation texture size error on some platforms that don’t support float point texture format. Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed the issue of snapping a rotated, scaled node would cause problems in the scene editor ● Fixed the possible incorrect cache data when editing materials.

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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

GDeflate: An Open GPU Compression Standard GDeflate is a high-performance, scalable, GPU-optimized data compression scheme that can help applications make use of the sheer amount of data throughput available on modern NVMe devices. Data throughput of various data compressed formats compared to varying staging buffer sizes Figure 2.

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