Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

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 106

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking 106

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

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). Easy to use.

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Lightmap Baking Render Shaders 59

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Additionally, the modern backend can implement rendering methods , such as forward clustered, mobile, and more in the future (such as deferred clustered, cinematic, etc.). and is intended to run on very old PC hardware as well as most older (still working) mobile phones. Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

AAA 145

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development 145

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Rendering: Fix cluster_render.glsl failing on some Macs ( GH-67746 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ).

Beta 99

Beta Dev Render Bug 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects.

Render 52

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Incompatibility with older mobile devices which do not support OpenGL ES 3.0. Lots and lots of driver bugs in mobile and desktop.

Feature 52

Feature Render Editing Shaders 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps.

Collision 52

Collision Lightmap Baking Render 52