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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. 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. Debug output of the prototype implementation. Scene by NHodgesVFX.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

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Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Physics: Fix crash on debug shapes update if CollisionObject is not in tree ( GH-48974 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, API documentation updates.

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

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SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. What can it do? It's enabled and it automatically works by generating global illumination for static objects.

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

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Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. but going one step too far: in debug builds in 3.2.3, It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. HTML5: Threads, GDNative, AudioWorklet.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. Still, the disadvantage is that it will increase the lightmap package.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Debug draw mode for texel density. Soft Shadows (merged). Introduction.

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

Cocos

passName : the name of the pass, easy for debugging. Prioritize the scene to use lightmap to bake AO so that even if HBAO is turned off, the effect is still not bad. If you want to keep it the same size as the background buffer, pass in 1.0. layout : corresponds to the name of the pass in the Cocos Shader.

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