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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

I quickly felt at home and I started focusing on 3D editor and rendering contributions. release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Moving forward, and with my full focus on Godot development, my goal is to work on Godot's 3D rendering and help bring Godot 4.0 Scene by NHodgesVFX. finish line. Red: depth buffer.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Hoping that by the end of January, the new renderer will be mostly done! Introduction. Implement Decals.

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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). Easy to use.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

The newly added VR support also suffers with GIProbe, as it has to render in very high resolutions. Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile. How does it look? How do I use it? Tweaking Options.