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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Game window embedding was implemented to support our recent interactive in-game editing feature. Godot should now feel much faster when editing large scenes with hundreds or thousands of nodes.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

SheepIT - free render farm for Blender

DameDev.tv

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

SheepIT is a free Blender render farm that I've wanted to test for quite some time. The basic idea is very simple: you help in the rendering of other's people projects, and in exchange, other people help you to render. SheepIT is "a free distributed render farm for Blender" Let's break it down.

Render

Render PC Scripting Asset

Use Custom Render Pipeline to Enhance your Game Graphics - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

This article will discuss the new feature of Cocos Creator, Custom Render Pipeline(CRP), and demonstrate how to apply the custom render pipeline already written in Cocos Cyberpunk to your own project. Most of them are asking: How to apply the Custom Render Pipeline in Cocos Cyberpunk to my own project. component onto the node.

Render

Render Graphics Code Baking

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The newly added VR support also suffers with GIProbe, as it has to render in very high resolutions. 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. How does it look?

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., 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.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Path tracing and ray tracing are both rendering techniques, but they have key differences.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Cinematics Render Baking

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

The Complete Guide To Lighting In Unreal Engine

Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Mobility option inside the Transform property will affect how the lights are rendered in the scene. Well, Unreal Engine has 2 different lighting methods: baked (static) lighting and dynamic lighting. But if a character passes in front of baked light it will not display his shadow at all. Movable And Static Lights.

Engine

Engine Engineering Point and Click Baking

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing.

Collision

Collision Baking Lightmap Render

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

x branch used OpenGL ES 2.0 / OpenGL 2.1 ( GLES2 ) as its rendering API. This worked well, but had many limitations preventing us to use more modern rendering techniques. all rendering code was rewritten to use the more modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 renderer was removed. renderer was removed. OpenGL ES 2.0

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A few late features have also been included because they were too good to keep waiting (such as improved Inspector subresource editing and node copy-paste support ). New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Editor: Improved Inspector sub-resource editing ( GH-45907 ).

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Render Build Bug Editing

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. New CPU lightmapper.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). zstd 1.4.8).

Render

Render Bug Build Beta

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. This meant that the larger scenes might refuse to bake because they don't fit within the size limits of an image. This will be a draw mode that previews the texel density of lightmaps (without actually (re)baking them).

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). zstd 1.4.8).

Render

Render Build Bug Collision

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New physically based 3D renderer.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. Enable this setting and Godot will automatically interpolate objects, smoothing out rendered frames.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We know many users are excited about the coming improvements to 2D and 3D rendering in 4.0. Over the last few years we have completely overhauled the Godot renders. They now target Vulkan by default and we have created them with future support for Direct3D 12 and other rendering APIs in mind. We haven’t forgotten about 2D.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Yes, in the past, Unity has come up a little short when it came to interior renderings. Now, though, with Cinemachine, these interior renderings are beginning to look absolutely stunning. Some rendering programs complicate the process of importing files. As of yet, there is no distributed baking.

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. PvP arena could easily be rendered an insignificant system for leech RPG players. Sign up for their newsletter to be informed when the latest deconstruction drops.

Baking

Baking Simulation Build Animation

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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SheepIT - free render farm for Blender

Use Custom Render Pipeline to Enhance your Game Graphics - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

The Complete Guide To Lighting In Unreal Engine

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

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

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