Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. Now we can get instant feedback and the art director can iterate faster than ever before.” Scott Knapp. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects. The new GI probe implementation in Godot is a game changer, and gives Godot 3.0 an edge in quality over existing mainstream engines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. What can it do? It's enabled and it automatically works by generating global illumination for static objects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Input: Allow checking for exact matches with Action events ( GH-50874 ). beta 5 and beta 6.

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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

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. It's also very easy to use.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Use baked lightmaps instead. As this back-end is intended to run on the lowest end hardware possible, shaders need to be kept very small. As such all lighting is done by using a forward multi-pass approach. GIProbes of course don't work. GPU-based Particles will not work as there is no transform feedback support.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Input: Exposed setters for sensor values ( GH-53742 ). See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link]. See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link]. See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. This feature adds more detail to existing GI techniques by using screen-space sampling, similar to SSAO.

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