Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

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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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking 106

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

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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Lightmap Baking Render Shaders 59

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

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Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects. It works by implementing voxel cone tracing in a way that is friendlier with low end GPUs and high end mobile. GIProbe is a new node that is placed in the scene in a similar way as you place a reflection probe.

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Render Baking Lightmap Shaders 52

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

You can access the help menu by pressing ESC key (or clicking on the settings button if you’re playing it on a mobile device). 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.

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Code Culling Lightmap Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. before focusing on rendering optimization for mobile Vulkan in the 4.0

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Collision Lightmap Baking Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. The 3D asset workflow has also seen great improvements.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile 52