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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

I quickly felt at home and I started focusing on 3D editor and rendering contributions. release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. Scene by NHodgesVFX. finish line.

Render

Render Culling Baking Lightmap

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

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

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.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

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

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. The documentation for the Render Graph and pipeline customization is not yet ready, please give us more patience, we will provide the complete documentation before the official release of 3.8.

Beta

Beta Lightmap Render Animation

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. There is no effect because the corresponding rendering code has not yet been implemented. Writing Render Code The post-processing pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8 name : the effect’s name.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Pixel Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Rendering: Batching: Fix item_batch_flags stale state causing glitches ( GH-48992 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1,

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Previously every LightmapGI node used to store its lightmap atlas in a single large image. This meant that the larger scenes might refuse to bake because they don't fit within the size limits of an image. Multi-image atlases.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

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

NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Nanite intelligently streams and processes only the detail you can perceive, largely removing poly count and draw call constraints, and eliminating time-consuming work like baking details to normal maps and manually authoring levels of detail. This allows users to focus less on tedious tasks and more on creativity.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Content

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 crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. Cocos Creator 3.7.3 Release Notes Download Cocos Creator 3.7.3 from the Cocos Dashboard.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

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. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. What can it do? It's enabled and it automatically works by generating global illumination for static objects.

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

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

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 3.4 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

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

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

Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more.

Agent

Agent Build Console Communications

Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Baked Lighting. Realistic Lighting In realistic games, lighting mimics real-world behavior using accurate physics and rendering. Realistic lighting mimics real-world light behavior, using accurate physics and rendering techniques to create believable environments. Light Probes. Additional Techniques Real-time Lighting.

Art

Art Games Texture Culling

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

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

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