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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. We also have added a new demo project that will share many of the new upgrades that have come with 3.7 and previous updates. You can download it from the Cocos Store.

Lightmap

Lightmap Engine Engineering Mesh

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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?

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). so here's another maintenance release to fix them.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). What can it do? How do you use it?

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

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. Cocos Creator 3.7.2 was released last week.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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, Core engine. improvements.

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Another new CLI option is --quit which will quit the engine after the first main loop iteration. It is now possible to scale an.obj mesh when importing. The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. This will let you build C# solutions without starting the editor. Fixed issues.

Beta

Beta Bug Lightmap Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 New audio engine. GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. renderer was removed.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

They've all been doing outstanding work so far, and we're looking forward to integrating all those changes in the engine! x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Previously every LightmapGI node used to store its lightmap atlas in a single large image. Next steps.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

They won the Technology and Engineering Emmy® award for excellence and engineering creativity. Yes, in the past, Unity has come up a little short when it came to interior renderings. Now, though, with Cinemachine, these interior renderings are beginning to look absolutely stunning. It’s easy to import files.

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

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