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.

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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,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. before focusing on rendering optimization for mobile Vulkan in the 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

This seemed like a great idea at the beginning, but ended up giving us many problems, such as: Bad performance on old mobile/desktop hardware which wasn't designed for the more modern rendering techniques being used. Incompatibility with older mobile devices which do not support OpenGL ES 3.0. On mobile, as OpenGL ES 3.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The ugly reality of software development is that legacy code builds up really quick and keeping it up to date, ready for new challenges that arise several years down the line takes a lot of effort. Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. GDExtension.

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