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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! This integration ensures developers targeting macOS or iOS can achieve excellent rendering quality and performance on supported Apple hardware. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3

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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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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Previously every LightmapGI node used to store its lightmap atlas in a single large image. Project overview and progress.

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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

In my previous post, I mentioned that I would be write a series of articles on Cocos Cyberpunk. 2、LightFX The lightmaps generated by the Lightmap Baking System will be automatically stored in this folder, and there is no need to manually modify the contents inside it. Hey everyone, Kylin here! as its component.

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). Occlusion generally works well, but you must ensure that walls are thicker than a voxel at the cascade they are rendering to in order to avoid light leaks. Will write an article about this soon.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New physically based 3D renderer.

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.