CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Texture baking Texture baking allows you to generate 2D texture maps from a 3D model's high polygon count and is a technique used particularly in video games. Baking takes into account the lighting, shadows, and other surface details of the high polygon model and transfers them onto the texture maps.

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The GameDev Guru

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

See what's a better fit for you: baked GI, screen-space GI and ray-traced GI. Let's get back to ray tracing with Unity global illumination.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Because the lighting is baked in, it’s difficult to test out multiple lighting scenarios. Theia could have pre-baked all of the configurator customization options, but that would have resulted in thousands of configurations for custom models. So pre-baking all of those options would have been nearly impossible.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Features of the new Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. Cornell box test using baked indirect lighting. My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 Scene by NHodgesVFX. finish line.

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Catnip Games

MARCH 19, 2022

They are now baked into tiles, so map editing is much easier. I got rid of that and switched to a polygon based approach which plugs into Box2D. Material polygons are created as invisible objects in Blender and exported into the game. I also changed the way fences are placed on the map.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Lightmapper looks pretty nice: Of course, GIProbe still has the advantages of being real-time, easier to set up (no unwrap or bake), supports rough refletions (which look great), and light affects dynamic objects more accurately.

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Well, Unreal Engine has 2 different lighting methods: baked (static) lighting and dynamic lighting. But if a character passes in front of baked light it will not display his shadow at all. Static and Stationary Movable options are for baked lights, and Movable is for dynamic lights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Runtime navigation mesh baking. Now the NavigationRegion can be added during gameplay, and it's possible to change its transform or even bake the navigation mesh data at runtime. Remember to hit the button Bake NavMesh to bake the navigation data, as you used to do in 3.x! Runtime baking. Multi-threading safety.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. was released a month ago , and we had a first maintenance release last week with Godot 3.3.1. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, so here's another maintenance release to fix them.

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Nvidia

APRIL 1, 2021

Traditionally, most lighting is baked offline, computing just a handful of “hero” dynamic lights at runtime. RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) RTXGI provides developers with a scalable solution for multi-bounce indirect lighting without light leakage, time-intensive offline lightmap baking, or expensive per-frame costs.

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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

It includes three passes. DeferredGBufferPass DeferredLightingPass DeferredPostPass Pipeline Selection Next, let’s see how to decide which rendering pipeline to be used in Cocos Cyberpunk.

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Nvidia

APRIL 9, 2021

Traditionally, game developers have baked most lighting and supported a small number of “hero” lights that are computed at runtime. RTXDI: Details on Achieving Real-time Performance RTXDI offers realistic lighting of dynamic scenes that require computing shadows from millions of area lights.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

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. 5、scene The cube textures produced by the Reflection Probe baking system will be automatically saved in a folder specific to each scene.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Q: Does the scene have to be pre-baked in any way to use ray tracing and/or path tracing? Pierre: The path tracer does not require any pre-baking, thanks to its more brute force (and slower) approach to lighting.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. RTX Direct Illumination lets artists add millions of dynamic lights to game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints, in real time.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Nanite intelligently streams and processes only the detail you can perceive, largely removing poly count and draw call constraints, and eliminating time-consuming work like baking details to normal maps and manually authoring levels of detail. This allows users to focus less on tedious tasks and more on creativity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Baked SDF Collision. It bakes an area of a custom resolution as a signed distance field. They are dynamic and can be moved around in real-time, colliding with any particle system which matches the cull mask. Still, for complex interiors, creating all the collisions with boxes and spheres can be a hassle.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 30, 2017

It’s baked into our culture, especially the United States, how important hard work and persistence are. As you’d expect, the Internet has capitalized on this fear, and is rife with blogs and thinkpieces ceaselessly extolling the virtues of persistence and hard work. All these articles are just confirming what most of already know.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. . ● Fixed the issue of snapping a rotated, scaled node would cause problems in the scene editor ● Fixed the possible incorrect cache data when editing materials. Fixed editor UI not refreshing when replacing environment maps. Fixed other user experience issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Import: Add vertex color support to OBJ importer ( GH-71033 ). iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Navigation: Add NavigationServer performance monitor ( GH-70731 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

This meant that the larger scenes might refuse to bake because they don't fit within the size limits of an image. This will be a draw mode that previews the texel density of lightmaps (without actually (re)baking them). Project overview and progress. Multi-image atlases. No soft shadows. With soft shadows.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. Now we can get instant feedback and the art director can iterate faster than ever before.” Scott Knapp. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

NVIDIA RTXGI Plugin for UE4 Leveraging the power of ray tracing, NVIDIA RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

He got his start in game development when Commodore approached him to create a piece of software, believing his company to be a software house and not, in fact, a baked bean distributor. .” Molyneux’s past interview style matches his somewhat freewheeling approach to life. Molyneux took the contract and did not reveal the error.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Traditionally, game developers have baked most lighting and supported a small number of “hero” lights that are computed at runtime. RTXDI RTXDI offers realistic lighting of dynamic scenes that require computing shadows from millions of area lights. Until now, this hasn’t been possible in video games in real-time.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

UE4 plugin (Download here ) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, RTXGI provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. RTXGI 1.1.40

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). Buildsystem: Rename float=64 SCons option to precision=double ( GH-67399 ). C#: Rename SignalInfo to Signal and make awaitable ( GH-69968 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ).

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Game Daily

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s all baked in.” Nobody’s even thinking about launching certain types of crypto-related projects there. It is, unfortunately, dead. But it also means we factored it all in [to our plans]. “Hong Kong has been super crypto forward, if you compare it to other places around the world,” he said.

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Nvidia

JUNE 22, 2021

They overcome the limited realism of pre-computing “baked” lighting in dynamic worlds and simplify an otherwise tedious lighting design process. Before NVIDIA RTX introduced real-time ray tracing to games, global illumination in games was largely static. Since then, technologies such as RTXGI bring dynamic global illumination to life.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. Also, the new lightmapper brings support for denoising using Open Image Denoise , which results in better-looking lightmaps in the same bake time range. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x

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Logic Simplified

JULY 18, 2022

Tap to grill, bake and prepare dishes to the top. What makes this game interesting is the array of ingredients, kitchen appliances, and dishes. Make, cook and serve delicious meals from all around the world like a trained chef.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Import: Add vertex color support to OBJ importer ( GH-71033 ). iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Navigation: Add NavigationServer performance monitor ( GH-70731 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2014

A long time in the baking, but the first release candidate is here. Edit: Release Candidate 2 is now up. This does not mean Godot is now without bugs, but that nothing should be too serious to affect your productivity. After stable release, we’ll keep fixing issues and then head over to 1.1 (see see roadmap !).

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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