Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Normally our Beta 1 release notes summarize all the most exciting changes from the previous dev releases. 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. down to 0.2 ( GH-97281 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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 ). beta 5 and beta 6.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. Also, the new lightmapper brings support for denoising using Open Image Denoise , which results in better-looking lightmaps in the same bake time range. More rendering improvements.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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 ). beta 6 and RC 1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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 ). RC 1 and RC 2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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 ). RC 2 and RC 3.

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