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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. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh. Done May 2018. enviroment relections. cubemap filtering. implement BRDF. omni lights.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

It is now possible to scale an.obj mesh when importing. It is now possible to center your game window with OS.center_window(). The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. release, so at least a few months more, and afterwards with security fixes for games in production.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting. Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Fixed an issue where the setter for the Mesh:: _ hash attribute was not bound. .

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

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: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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