Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. At the end of the day, the use case where Vulkan and DirectX12 make the most sense is when you have hundreds of thousands of objects, which are all different (different geometry, textures, etc.),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ).

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To show the benefits of GDeflate, we measured system performance without compression, with standard CPU-side decompression, and with GPU-accelerated GDeflate decompression on a representative game-focused dataset, containing texture and geometry data. GDeflate is available as a standard GPU decompression option in DirectStorage 1.1—a

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Unity has announced that DLSS will be natively supported in Unity Engine version 2021.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). GLES2: Fix PanoramaSky artifacts on Android ( GH-44489 ).

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Baked Lighting. Pre-computes lighting and stores it, making the game run faster but limiting changes in lighting. Lighting changes in the game as you play, making the environment more interactive. These are pre-made textures that store lighting info for objects that don’t move. Texture Compression.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). GLES2: Fix PanoramaSky artifacts on Android ( GH-44489 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). GLES2: Fix PanoramaSky artifacts on Android ( GH-44489 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. New CPU lightmapper. For Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Instead of computing the amount of light that reaches a certain surface every frame for every light source, we precompute all this information and store it in a single texture. The process of generating light map texture coordinates takes a while, and it was being triggered on every scene reimport.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. I found one beautiful high-poly model by Charles Woods on Sketchfab, but the textures were made to look a little too damaged for what I was looking for.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). GLES2: Fix PanoramaSky artifacts on Android ( GH-44489 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). GLES2: Fix PanoramaSky artifacts on Android ( GH-44489 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). GLES2: Fix PanoramaSky artifacts on Android ( GH-44489 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). GLES2: Fix PanoramaSky artifacts on Android ( GH-44489 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). GLES2: Various improvements to 2D batching ( GH-42119 ). GLES2: Fix PanoramaSky artifacts on Android ( GH-44489 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: GLES3: Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices ( GH-62909 ). Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Use baked lightmaps instead. is not a fallback but a different platform you should target your game for. GIProbes of course don't work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

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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. You should also notice a significant bump in textures import speed thanks to the etcpak library, and the new multi-threaded importer.

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