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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.

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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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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 3.7.1 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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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. Download Links (Ver. 061006) Windows macOS Key Updates Custom Pipeline Integrated with Post-Processing Effects In version 3.8,

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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

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

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