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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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). Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Almost every 3D asset is painted using only one atlas texture. As I mentioned before – almost every 3D object uses the same atlas texture. We created 4 UV sets of each car and wrote a shader that swaps them. To solve the problem we rearranged the mesh and added some edge loops along track parts.

Art

Art Prop Mesh Racing

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Mainly I focused on generating grass that bends in the wind and some fern like plants, but what comes next is usable for all kind of meshes. Batching means to combine mesh objects that share the same material or that are marked as static in the Unity inspector. In my case I had terrible FPS with just some thousand mesh instances.

Mesh

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. for GLES2).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. For more advanced use cases, you can use TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add WordArt to your scenes ;). Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader).

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Feature

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

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. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts. Detaching the Script editor and the Shader editor is done for the most part. Also, there are some bugs to be fixed.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. Materials and shaders. Full principled BSDF.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Moving forward, Joe will continue to refine and improve the look of the fur, adding a dither effect to the hair shader to soften the edges of each card. After working with the hair cards for awhile, it dawned on Pete that he could actually create a proxy texture that would easily troubleshoot the orientation of each card.

Dev

Dev Concepts Demo Texture

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Visual shader editor. Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). As this back-end is intended to run on the lowest end hardware possible, shaders need to be kept very small. Use baked lightmaps instead. Visual shader editor.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. is introducing sky shaders which allow users to create dynamic skies that update in real time (including reflections).

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Little Racer – 3D Art

Trending Sources

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

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