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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

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

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). The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default.

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). Will write an article about this soon. This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games.

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

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.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

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!

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

was still far away, so we tasked Joan Fons ( jfons ), as part of the GSoC program, to write a new CPU lightmapper for Godot 3.x. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. Back in summer 2019 we already knew Godot 4.0 For Godot 4.0,

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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. writing shaders is very easy! Godot will pick the right compression for textures when importing for mobile, and supply them over the network.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Use baked lightmaps instead. GDScript allows to write code in a quick way within a controlled environment. Does not always catch errors during compile (or write) time. Support for root motion as well as the ability to write your own custom blend nodes has also been added. GIProbes of course don't work.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. We hope the new analyzers will help users avoid common pitfalls and write better code. Of course, the 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader. To create, we create a Cocos Shader file named “gaussian-blur.effect” and write the following. Note: In Cocos Creator 3.8.0,

Shaders

Shaders Writing Pixel Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

A mipmap is a smaller version of the original texture, usually filtered in a special way to make them look nicer when they are viewed from an angle or far away. This is why for pixel-art games you often either change the filtering mode of textures or need to disable mipmaps to make the game look nice and sharp. ). Done May 2018.

Pixel

Pixel Texture Render Shaders

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