Remove Content Remove Lightmap Remove Writing
article thumbnail

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.

Beta 106
article thumbnail

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). I hope that this write up made more evident why Godot is such a key technology for the future of the game industry.

AAA 145
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

In my previous post, I mentioned that I would be write a series of articles on Cocos Cyberpunk. 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. Hey everyone, Kylin here!

Code 52
article thumbnail

Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more. If there isn’t appropriate IAM role, create it here.

Agent 69
article thumbnail

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

was still far away, so we tasked Joan Fons ( jfons ), as part of the GSoC program, to write a new CPU lightmapper for Godot 3.x. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. Back in summer 2019 we already knew Godot 4.0

article thumbnail

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. As mentioned above, 3.0

Render 52
article thumbnail

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We also reached out to content creators from the Godot community and got two very nice videos from FinePointCGI and Bramwell covering what Godot 4.0 In this article we highlight some of the new features we are most excited about.

Beta 52