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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Rendering: Add 2D shadows and canvas SDF to OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67639 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 91
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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts. Detaching the Script editor and the Shader editor is done for the most part. Also, there are some bugs to be fixed.

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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). lightmapper.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Rendering: Add 2D shadows and canvas SDF to OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67639 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 40
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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

Beta 52
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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. 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). The smaller this value, the bigger the lightmaps will be.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). When doing tasks such as shader editing, VFX (particles) or animation, there is a large difference between Godot and engines such as Unreal.

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