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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders. Navigation Navigation contains some of the oldest code in the engine.

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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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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 3.7.1 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

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. 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). The smaller this value, the bigger the lightmaps will be.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

They've all been doing outstanding work so far, and we're looking forward to integrating all those changes in the engine! Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts.

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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. We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Download Links (Ver. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

Beta 52