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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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

From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline

iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Why it matters: Efficient UV mapping and normal map baking allow high-detail textures to be applied to low-poly models, preserving visual fidelity without unnecessary computational overhead. Adding Realism & Depth A 3D model without textures is lifeless. Why it matters: Improperly mapped textures break immersion.

Concepts

Concepts Art Texture Asset

How to Create a Game-Ready AAA asset

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

With that I have to create a low poly model of the gun on which we will bake the high poly details. Then I unwrapped the low poly mesh model into three UV sets in order to get a good resolution of the textures. UV sets are the coordinates that map the 2D texture images onto the 3D model surface. I used Marmoset Toolbag software.

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Asset AAA Mesh Texture

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it. Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. Despite lightmappers being pretty old technology, the new one that was implemented in Godot 4.0 lightmapper. Easy to use.

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Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

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

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Unreal Engine is used by more than 11 million creators, making it one of the most popular game engines in the world, and one that continuously pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with real-time technology. This allows users to focus less on tedious tasks and more on creativity.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Content

NVIDIA Research: Learning and Rendering Dynamic Global Illumination with One Tiny Neural Network in Real-Time

Nvidia

JUNE 22, 2021

Since then, technologies such as RTXGI bring dynamic global illumination to life. They overcome the limited realism of pre-computing “baked” lighting in dynamic worlds and simplify an otherwise tedious lighting design process. Before NVIDIA RTX introduced real-time ray tracing to games, global illumination in games was largely static.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render Technology Baking

Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The current Game Ready Driver (version 526.47) contains NVIDIA RTX IO technology, including optimizations for GDeflate. The bulk of a game’s content package is made up of resources that naturally target the GPU: textures, materials, and geometry data. an open standard for GPU compression.

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Tile Data Content Games

Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. Texture Tools Exporter Version 2021.1.1 Version 1.1.30

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Graphics Render Technology

Crazy and Fun Time Management Kitchen Game

Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

Tap to grill, bake and prepare dishes to the top. Technologies Used. As a result, when a dish is upgraded, it requires a different texture or possibly an entirely new model. What makes this game interesting is the array of ingredients, kitchen appliances, and dishes. Project Challenges. Food models.

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Games Entertainment Baking Animation

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In the future, this might be the same case with newer rendering technologies. Godot's high level abstraction of rastering allows us to focus on using the rendering techniques that best fit each technology. Detect when shaders read from screen texture and automatically copy screen to back-buffer on demand. Rasterizer design.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engine

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. So you can expect Godot 3.3.1 in the coming weeks with a first batch of fixes. For Godot 4.0,

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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. Both indirect light and voxel reflections are provided by this technique. Still, Godot 3.0

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. You can try it live with the Web Editor too! Supporting the project.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

As always, please remember that we are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Use baked lightmaps instead. Additionally, a noise texture can now be used as a resource, which generates noise on the fly. Download Godot 3.1

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Feature Render Editing Shaders

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