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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the development on Twitter. is jam-packed with new features despite having a much shorter development period than 4.3. This integration ensures developers targeting macOS or iOS can achieve excellent rendering quality and performance on supported Apple hardware. development cycle.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

The cover illustration is from Ballionaire , a roguelike pachinko simulator where the laws of physics bend to your will, developed by newobject and published by Raw Fury! You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky and itch.io. Baking a Lightmap3D is more prone to crash after we added support for transparency.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours.

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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). The biggest challenge of this workflow is not the lightmap itself, but the fact that it should be easy to use (which is Godot's #1 design priority). The smaller this value, the bigger the lightmaps will be.

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

Nvidia

Dynamic Open Worlds Full of Geometric Detail With the introduction of Nanite and Lumen in UE5, developers can create games that contain massive amounts of geometric detail with fully dynamic global illumination. This allows users to focus less on tedious tasks and more on creativity.

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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

I'm happy to announce that, starting today, I will be working as a full-time Godot developer! release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. This is Joan speaking. A bit about me.

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Essential Ray Tracing SDKs for Game and Professional Development

Nvidia

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.