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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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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Debug draw mode for texel density. Soft Shadows (merged). Introduction.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. Still, the disadvantage is that it will increase the lightmap package.

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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Debug output of the prototype implementation. Not long after that, I got a job as a Godot consultant at Prehensile Tales, which I kept till last Friday. My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 Red: depth buffer.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

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Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Physics: Fix crash on debug shapes update if CollisionObject is not in tree ( GH-48974 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, API documentation updates.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Rendering: Add 2D shadows and canvas SDF to OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67639 ). Rendering: Fix cluster_render.glsl failing on some Macs ( GH-67746 ).

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

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SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). There are also some new debug modes to visualize how SDFGI is working: SDFGI Cascades: Show the world as SDF, helps you understand what voxel sizes are, so you adjust your geometry to work better with those voxel sizes.