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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

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The Complete Guide To Lighting In Unreal Engine

Awesome Tuts

Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. This tutorial is meant for beginners as well as experts in Unreal Engine. You can check out the Parasite Platformer tutorial by clicking the link below: Create A Parasite Platformer Game In Unreal Engine. Types Of Light In Unreal Engine.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

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Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. But not only is it the first to make it to mobile, it’s also the first one to be free to play. Summoners War: Chronicles is yet another MMORPG to make it to mobile.

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Enhancing Mobile Game Performance: Essential VFX Techniques for Visual Excellence 

iXie gaming

In the fast-paced world of mobile game development , visual effects (VFX) play a pivotal role in creating immersive experiences that captivate players. However, achieving this level of visual excellence without compromising performance on mobile devices is a delicate balancing act.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

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). Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile.

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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). Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

Subscribe to The Nodeletter to get a regular digest of Godot Engine news directly in your email inbox! For the purpose of this retrospective, we approached the engine maintainers directly, asking them to point us at one particularly compelling change they witnessed in their area of expertise. beta 1 release notes.

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