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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. Also, there are some bugs to be fixed. PR: #62378.

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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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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

In my previous post, I mentioned that I would be write a series of articles on Cocos Cyberpunk. 2、LightFX The lightmaps generated by the Lightmap Baking System will be automatically stored in this folder, and there is no need to manually modify the contents inside it. Hey everyone, Kylin here! as its component.

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

Visual shader editor. Unsupported features will not be visible when editing materials. Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). Unsupported features will not be visible when editing environments. Use baked lightmaps instead.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. Editor: Node copy-pasting.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

Materials and shaders. 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. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. GPU particles.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. is introducing sky shaders which allow users to create dynamic skies that update in real time (including reflections).

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