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

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). This is handled nowadays by a type of technology called “streaming”. Few other technologies work as well in this area.

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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). lightmapper.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Unreal Engine is used by more than 11 million creators, making it one of the most popular game engines in the world, and one that continuously pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with real-time technology. Learn more about DLSS , and experience it by downloading the NVIDIA RTX Technology Showcase.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. So you can expect Godot 3.3.1 Supporting the project.

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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. Godot will pick the right compression for textures when importing for mobile, and supply them over the network. It's also very easy to use.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

As always, please remember that we are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Use baked lightmaps instead. Additionally, a noise texture can now be used as a resource, which generates noise on the fly. Download Godot 3.1

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