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

AUGUST 10, 2022

We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. PRs: #62075 , #62910.

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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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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