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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

I quickly felt at home and I started focusing on 3D editor and rendering contributions. My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Cornell box test using baked indirect lighting. Scene by NHodgesVFX.

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. Download Links (Ver. For now, you can refer to the pipeline test project to learn how to use them.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

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.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

Unreal Engine 5 Early Access available now with DirectX RayTracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex support. Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early. Unreal Engine 5 Early Access available now with DirectX RayTracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex support.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

The newly added VR support also suffers with GIProbe, as it has to render in very high resolutions. The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. How does it look?

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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed include issue when Custom Engine lacks the external directory. Removed macro Record defined by the engine to avoid conflicts. Cocos Creator 3.7.3

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. Rendering: Batching: Fix item_batch_flags stale state causing glitches ( GH-48992 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.