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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. 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 was added by Macksaur in GH-96290.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Core engine. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas. GDExtension.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). lightmapper.

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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. The relevant code is shown below. Starting from the next article, Kylin(me) will provide an introduction to the source code related to game logic.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

The biggest challenge of this workflow is not the lightmap itself, but the fact that it should be easy to use (which is Godot's #1 design priority). Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile. This is an approximate value of the size of a lightmap texel in world coordinates.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Multi window code editors by trollodel. They've all been doing outstanding work so far, and we're looking forward to integrating all those changes in the engine! Multi window code editors. PRs: #62075 , #62910.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Thirdparty: Regenerate GL loader code with GLAD 2 ( GH-68372 ).

Beta 98