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New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. x and the shader used is almost identical (should be easy to port). It can also be done from within a particle shader itself by chaining another particle system as a sub-emitter.

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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 the terrain as too dark, caused by the lighting calculation issue in the builtin-terrain material. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. . ● Fixed error caused by removeSpotLight on native platforms.

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Doing it before starting the actual game would mean to already generate all the content that needs to be batched at the beginning, which is no solution for a theoretically “endless procedurally generated” terrain. That’s it. When

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately. Improvements • Move the Light Bake entry from the top item settings menu to the panel menu. •

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. writing shaders is very easy!

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