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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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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile.

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

2、LightFX The lightmaps generated by the Lightmap Baking System will be automatically stored in this folder, and there is no need to manually modify the contents inside it. including animations,effects,models,shaders,ui,sounds and so on. including animations,effects,models,shaders,ui,sounds and so on.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. (contributed by @May2nd ) ● Fixed remote bundles loading failed issue when running in GameView. Fixed error caused by removeSpotLight on native platforms. Fixed pre-backed AO calculation issue.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x Uģis' original proposal.

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

Cocos

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader.

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