Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately. Improvements • Move the Light Bake entry from the top item settings menu to the panel menu. •

Render

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). Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry.

Lightmap

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. x and the shader used is almost identical (should be easy to port). It can also be done from within a particle shader itself by chaining another particle system as a sub-emitter.

Collision

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Import: Add vertex color support to OBJ importer ( GH-71033 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. 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.), Shader abstraction. Ability to bundle shaders inside materials.

Render

iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Textures, geometry, and audio assets that arent optimised can easily strain memory and GPU resources. Textures: Use texture atlases, apply compression formats suited to your target platform (e.g., Shader management is critical. Reduce variants, embrace GPU instancing, and bake lighting when possible.

AAA

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects. Implement the new version of the Godot SVO-based Light Baker. Implement post process effects: DOF Blur, Bloom and Tone Mapping.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Import: Add vertex color support to OBJ importer ( GH-71033 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts. Detaching the Script editor and the Shader editor is done for the most part. Also, there are some bugs to be fixed.

Lightmap

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed bone animation texture size error on some platforms that don’t support float point texture format. Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain.

Terrain

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

  Nevertheless, I also spent some money on the Advanced Foliage Shaders v.5. Simply to get rid of the annoying fact of not being able to handle the grass geometry shader I wrote about in the last post , due to my poor CG programming knowledge. I just toggled the “Baked Pivots” option in the shader to ON.

Mesh

The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Almost every 3D asset is painted using only one atlas texture. As I mentioned before – almost every 3D object uses the same atlas texture. We created 4 UV sets of each car and wrote a shader that swaps them. They are textured using the same atlas map and need to fit into the grid size.

Art

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

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. including animations,effects,models,shaders,ui,sounds and so on. including animations,effects,models,shaders,ui,sounds and so on.

Code

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. for GLES2).

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). A long awaited improvement to reduce shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL is coming to Godot 3.5, courtesy of Pedro J.

Shaders

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy!

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. 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 ).

Beta

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. In general, various data types, such as texture and geometry, compress at different ratios.

Tile

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x For Godot 4.0,

Collision

Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Moving forward, Joe will continue to refine and improve the look of the fur, adding a dither effect to the hair shader to soften the edges of each card. After working with the hair cards for awhile, it dawned on Pete that he could actually create a proxy texture that would easily troubleshoot the orientation of each card.

Dev

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Visual shader editor. Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). As this back-end is intended to run on the lowest end hardware possible, shaders need to be kept very small. Use baked lightmaps instead. Visual shader editor.

Feature

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. is introducing sky shaders which allow users to create dynamic skies that update in real time (including reflections).

Beta

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. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader.

Shaders

iXie gaming

MAY 23, 2025

Then came photorealistic characters, 4K textures, and entire worlds rendered in real time. Massive asset libraries, third-party plugins, and spaghetti shaders start to weigh everything down. The usual tips, like compress textures or use LODs, only scratch the surface. Batch materials with the same shader.

Render