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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmap baking improvements Clay John changed the logic for baking direct lighting in LightmapGI to spread it over multiple frames, avoiding a spike of computation that can lead the OS to trigger TDR , resulting in a crash of the GPU context ( GH-102257 ). The experience should be much better already in beta 3.

Beta 75
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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). Visual scripting. Additionally, Godot 4.0 Screen space GI can be used to enhance the realism even more. That said, Godot 4.0

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. For things like the Script editor, this means you can move it to another screen, move the undocked window to be side-by-side with the main window, or just using Alt+Tab to change between the main window and the undocked one. Student: trollodel. PR: #62378. Introduction.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately. Still, the disadvantage is that it will increase the lightmap package. Fixes • Fixed bundle script dependency on import-map that could not be reused across projects.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Editor: Load and use system emoji font in the editor ( GH-68090 ). Editor: Various style and usability improvements to the in-editor documentation ( GH-68132 , GH-68159 ).

Beta 98
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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

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. 7、scripts Store all of the gameplay scripts. Let’s take a look at each of them one by one. 3、res it contains all the resources used in this game.

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