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.

Beta 106

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking 106

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Optimizing Scripting: Reduce Overhead & Boost Efficiency Key Issues & Solutions - Update() Overhead: Multiple objects invoke Update() reduce performance. The utilization of Baked Lighting for static region precomputation results in enhanced runtime performance. Consolidating logic lowers call frequency and boosts efficiency.

Games 78

Games Texture Render Balance 78

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. apply_theme().

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Lightmap UX Shaders Debug 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. Also, the new lightmapper brings support for denoising using Open Image Denoise , which results in better-looking lightmaps in the same bake time range. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x

Collision 52

Collision Lightmap Baking Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52