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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

is a huge release that requires a lot of work, and because we're committed to providing dev snapshots frequently so that pre-release testers can quickly access the new features and bug fixes. 3D: Add support for saving lightmap as multiple images ( GH-61861 ). We're getting in 2-digit territory, both because 4.0

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). Easy to use.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, so here's another maintenance release to fix them.

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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. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad. If you are an artist in the game industry then you are faced with more opportunities than ever before. Proceduralism in Games with Luiz Kruel | Episode 263.

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Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more. Incredibuild for Cloud Optimization on the AWS Marketplace.

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures).

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.