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Essential Ray Tracing SDKs for Game and Professional Development

Nvidia

Traditionally, most lighting is baked offline, computing just a handful of “hero” dynamic lights at runtime. RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) RTXGI provides developers with a scalable solution for multi-bounce indirect lighting without light leakage, time-intensive offline lightmap baking, or expensive per-frame costs.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x x releases was quickly put together before the 3.0

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

Cocos

Simply put, Gaussian blur takes every pixel on an image and processes it with the following process. To put it bluntly, it’s a simple weighted sum: while sampling the target pixel, sample some of the surrounding pixels and give each pixel a weight (the sum of the weights is 1.0).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

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