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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.

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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). This is handled nowadays by a type of technology called “streaming”. Few other technologies work as well in this area.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. OpenXR plugin.

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

As always, please remember that we are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Unsupported features will not be visible when editing materials. Unsupported features will not be visible when editing environments. Use baked lightmaps instead.

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

It’s the same as with any new technological development. They won the Technology and Engineering Emmy® award for excellence and engineering creativity. As with any new software development or technology, there’s going to be a learning curve. This basically means you can only bake lightmaps using a single machine.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Improved 3D manipulation gizmos (multiple-axis editing and scale), thanks to the work of Przemysław Gołąb ( n-pigeon ).

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