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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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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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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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

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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Lightmap Bug Baking Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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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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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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

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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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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Shaders Collision Terrain Baking 52

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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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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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 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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Entertainment Lightmap Games Baking 52

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

JUNE 27, 2020

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. SDFGI is mostly leak free, unlike VCT techniques which are the most common in use today (like SVOGI/GIProbe/etc). As long as walls are thicker than a voxel for a given cascade, light won't go through. How do you use it?

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Lightmap Texture FPS Debug 70

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ). GUI: Add MSDF and mipmap generation project settings for the default font ( GH-60513 ). GUI: RichTextLabel: Improve table cell selection ( GH-57871 ). GUI: RichTextLabel: Add context menu ( GH-60170 ). Navigation: Use ThreadWorkPool instead of thread_process_array in NavMap ( GH-60359 ).

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This, together with dynamic or baked-in lighting and shadows, enables the creation of amazing photorealistic material that nevertheless operates in real time. Its blend of development- and artistic-focused tools allows for unrestricted creative expression. For its materials and graphics, it employs the widely used PBR technique.

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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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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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Baking Bug Editing Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix wrong method called when setting NavigationRegion travel_cost ( GH-64068 ). Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects. The new GI probe implementation in Godot is a game changer, and gives Godot 3.0 an edge in quality over existing mainstream engines.

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Render Shaders Lightmap Polygon 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Jake Young ( Duroxxigar ) backported the refactored and much improved navigation system that Andrea Catania ( AndreaCatania ) implemented for Godot 4.0 back in 2020!

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Beta Dev Shaders Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 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

JANUARY 15, 2023

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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Brand Game Development

APRIL 17, 2017

I created both for its own sake and out of a half-baked fantasy that it would make me independently wealthy. Even that was an exaggeration because there’s not much wrong with the company I was working for anyway (though I did move into a better job in IT for a hospital).

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Games Dev Fantasy Game Developer 130

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 21, 2017

And that's just as well, since a lot of work continues to be done every day to fix issues in the master branch and improve usability, and Juan even took the time to sneak in a couple past-deadline but very requested features, like a lightmapper for static light baking (to provide an alternative to the real-time but resource-heavy GIProbe).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2021

One of those is reducing the number of addressing modes , which will help us eventually have instructions with addressing modes baked in. Those are internal changes that won't affect the way you code, but I'll mention them here for completeness. This will reduce branching in the code which is something CPUs enjoy.

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Feature Bug Alpha Code 56

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Sprite3D: Use full float UV for better precision ( GH-42537 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In game engines (or even when exported from the 3D modelling application), animation data is baked to a simpler representation because, for games, processing beziers and IKs is way too expensive for real-time.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Unless this feature is baked into your core and players expect it, no one wants to sit around for half an hour doing an intensive quiz. And at no point does it feel mundane or forced (unlike some of the pop quizzes we’ve all had at school). A good rule here is to keep them short and snippy. Your users will get demotivated and bored.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be.

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