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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.

Beta 101
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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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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

Unreal Engine 5 Early Access available now with DirectX RayTracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex support. Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early. Unreal Engine 5 Early Access available now with DirectX RayTracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex support.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). lightmapper.

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own. Download Links (Ver. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

Beta 52
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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

Beta 97