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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

The utilization of Baked Lighting for static region precomputation results in enhanced runtime performance. Logic Simplified is a Unity Game Development Company with the finest, most creative game concept artists , 2D and 3D game designers , and UX designers.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

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From the integration of the card battling and Build & Harvest mechanics, to the strong character and world building, to the consistently smooth UI and UX, they all served the same purpose; how do we establish a fantasy world for people to shortly escape from their busy life, for once or for many more times?

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

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

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ).

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