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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. Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

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. Improvements • Move the Light Bake entry from the top item settings menu to the panel menu. •

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Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Just cover the scene with the volume, as you do with GIProbe: Finally, just press the big BAKE button.

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Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

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. Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts. PR: #62378.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed the issue of failed compression after configuring Custom Compress Format for texture in the project protocol program ● Fixed the Add Component button not showing in the Inspector panel after exiting animation editing mode. Fixed various issues when editing multiple selected nodes.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Visual shader editor. Unsupported features will not be visible when editing materials. Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). Unsupported features will not be visible when editing environments. Use baked lightmaps instead.

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Feature Render Editing Shaders

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

2、LightFX The lightmaps generated by the Lightmap Baking System will be automatically stored in this folder, and there is no need to manually modify the contents inside it. including animations,effects,models,shaders,ui,sounds and so on. including animations,effects,models,shaders,ui,sounds and so on. as its component.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

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. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). A long awaited improvement to reduce shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL is coming to Godot 3.5, courtesy of Pedro J.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. Editor: Node copy-pasting.

Collision

Collision Baking Lightmap Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy!

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. is introducing sky shaders which allow users to create dynamic skies that update in real time (including reflections).

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Moving forward, Joe will continue to refine and improve the look of the fur, adding a dither effect to the hair shader to soften the edges of each card. Once he played around with the cards a bit, Pete found them rather easy to create and, surprisingly, pretty practical to individually edit. Convenient, right?

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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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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

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

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

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