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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. 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.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

The Convergence of all Entertainment

Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad. If you are an artist in the game industry then you are faced with more opportunities than ever before. Proceduralism in Games with Luiz Kruel | Episode 263.

Entertainment

Entertainment Lightmap Baking Technology

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures).

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more.

Agent

Agent Build Console Communications

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). beta 5 and beta 6.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The new GI probe implementation in Godot is a game changer, and gives Godot 3.0 It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects. Both DOF effects can be used together for specifying focal regions: GI Probes. an edge in quality over existing mainstream engines.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. It's also very easy to use.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). beta 6 and RC 1.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). RC 2 and RC 3.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). RC 1 and RC 2.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

As always, please remember that we are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As much as we love exciting new features, we also want to see people create games on the full spectrum of devices for everyone to enjoy. Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. Physical light units are turned off by default but can be enabled in the project settings.

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Beta Engine Engineering Animation

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