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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

The biggest challenge of this workflow is not the lightmap itself, but the fact that it should be easy to use (which is Godot's #1 design priority). Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile. This is an approximate value of the size of a lightmap texel in world coordinates.

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Lesson 6: Game Mode, Play Mode, and Scenes

Game Designing

 Summary We’ll show you how to switch scenes by code in this Unity Scene Tutorial. And we’ll do lots of baking: Lightmaps with multiple Scenes Navmesh data with multiple Scenes Occlusion Culling data with multiple Scenes Lesson 6 Video Transcript Hey there everyone. Welcome back to another Unity tutorial.

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The Convergence of all Entertainment

Game Dev Unchained

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. You don’t need a large budget or a data science degree to do this kind of thing anymore. If you like it, use our special code GDU3030 to get 30% off for the next 3 months. Scott Knapp. Appfigures has made it affordable and simple!

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. It also has more useful built-in data types such as integer vectors. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas.

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

Cocos

If we want to support more complex Shaders, such as Blur, Depth of Field, and other effects, we need to work with the code to build it. Create a new TS script file named “GaussianBlur.ts” and enter the following code. There is no effect because the corresponding rendering code has not yet been implemented. blitScreen(0).version();

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. Before Unity Cinemachine, camera movement needed to be directly keyframed or, using code, had to be carefully scripted. You can even store cinematography data so it doesn’t need to be coded directly to the Unity camera you are currently using.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). Core: Add an option to make the project data directory non-hidden ( GH-52556 , GH-53779 ).

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