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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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

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has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

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(engine#14218) [XR] AR engine module update Fix shadowmap lowp with huawei and reflection probe brightness (engine#14058) Fix shader compilation error with the new version of lightmap (engine#14071) Fix unsynchronized model data issue when adding lod levels dynamically (engine#14054) Fix the issue that lod is not working properly when forced to use (..)

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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

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ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. Cocos Creator 3.7.3 from the Cocos Dashboard.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

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The newly added VR support also suffers with GIProbe, as it has to render in very high resolutions. Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile. How does it look? How do I use it? Tweaking Options.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

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Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Editor: Fix editor crash when exporting profiler data ( GH-48917 ). when exiting a project running from a ZIP data pack. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

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

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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. There is no effect because the corresponding rendering code has not yet been implemented. Writing Render Code The post-processing pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8 name : the effect’s name.

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