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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). The biggest challenge of this workflow is not the lightmap itself, but the fact that it should be easy to use (which is Godot's #1 design priority). First of all, you need to make sure your meshes have an UV2 layer.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1,

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

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? As long as walls are thicker than a voxel for a given cascade, light won't go through.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Fixed an issue where the setter for the Mesh:: _ hash attribute was not bound. Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. The native platform supports main.js build templates.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Previously every LightmapGI node used to store its lightmap atlas in a single large image. This meant that the larger scenes might refuse to bake because they don't fit within the size limits of an image. Multi-image atlases.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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