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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. 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. Scene by NHodgesVFX. finish line.

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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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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. The documentation for the Render Graph and pipeline customization is not yet ready, please give us more patience, we will provide the complete documentation before the official release of 3.8.

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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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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Rendering: Batching: Fix item_batch_flags stale state causing glitches ( GH-48992 ). 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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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 crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. Cocos Creator 3.7.3 Release Notes Download Cocos Creator 3.7.3 from the Cocos Dashboard.

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