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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Game window embedding was implemented to support our recent interactive in-game editing feature. 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.

Beta 106
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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.

AAA 145
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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. We also have added a new demo project that will share many of the new upgrades that have come with 3.7 and previous updates. You can download it from the Cocos Store.

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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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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately. Still, the disadvantage is that it will increase the lightmap package. Cocos Creator 3.7.2 x users upgrade.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed include issue when Custom Engine lacks the external directory. Removed macro Record defined by the engine to avoid conflicts. Cocos Creator 3.7.3

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

It's fairly slow and there are still a lot of issues to iron out, but you should be able to start it, edit a project and run it. Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one.

Beta 99