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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

We also have added a new demo project that will share many of the new upgrades that have come with 3.7 Cocos Creator 3.7.1 fixes many bugs that were found by the staff and developers when upgrading to 3.7. We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. and previous updates. You can download it from the Cocos Store.

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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 Scene by NHodgesVFX.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. Lumen removes the need for authoring lightmap UVs, waiting for lightmaps to bake or placing reflection captures, which results in crucial time savings in the development process.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

However, if you can port some existing projects and demos to the new version, that may provide a lot of useful information about critical issues still left to fix. 3D: Add support for saving lightmap as multiple images ( GH-61861 ). Most importantly: Make backups before opening any existing project in Godot 4.0 alpha builds.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. More rendering improvements.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. Here is an example using the older 3D platformer demo: VR support. Both indirect light and voxel reflections are provided by this technique.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Wojtek Pe 's Forest scene demo made in Godot 4.0 Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. On that note, feel free to head to the Downloads section and download 4.0 beta 1 now! Check out the video! What's new?

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