Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Not long after that, I got a job as a Godot consultant at Prehensile Tales, which I kept till last Friday. My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 Cornell box test using baked indirect lighting.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Lumen removes the need for authoring lightmap UVs, waiting for lightmaps to bake or placing reflection captures, which results in crucial time savings in the development process.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

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. Let’s take a look at each of them one by one. 3、res it contains all the resources used in this game.

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Nvidia

APRIL 1, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) RTXGI provides developers with a scalable solution for multi-bounce indirect lighting without light leakage, time-intensive offline lightmap baking, or expensive per-frame costs. RTXDI pushes past those limits and allows developers to elevate the visual fidelity in their games.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. Now we can get instant feedback and the art director can iterate faster than ever before.” Scott Knapp. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. . ● Fixed the issue of snapping a rotated, scaled node would cause problems in the scene editor ● Fixed the possible incorrect cache data when editing materials. Fixed editor UI not refreshing when replacing environment maps. Fixed other user experience issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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). Additionally, Godot 4.0 Screen space GI can be used to enhance the realism even more.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

3D: Add support for saving lightmap as multiple images ( GH-61861 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Add TileMap terrain center bit to support "connect" and "path" draw modes ( GH-61809 ). 2D: Fix terrains for isometric tilemaps ( GH-61998 ). Core: Hash function improvements ( GH-61934 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). 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. What can it do?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Add 2D shadows and canvas SDF to OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67639 ). Rendering: Fix cluster_render.glsl failing on some Macs ( GH-67746 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ).

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Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

And we’ll do lots of baking: Lightmaps with multiple Scenes Navmesh data with multiple Scenes Occlusion Culling data with multiple Scenes Lesson 6 Video Transcript Hey there everyone. Welcome back to another Unity tutorial.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. Also, the new lightmapper brings support for denoising using Open Image Denoise , which results in better-looking lightmaps in the same bake time range. More rendering improvements.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Capture lighting at specific points to realistically light moving objects. Additional Techniques Real-time Lighting. Lighting changes in the game as you play, making the environment more interactive. These are pre-made textures that store lighting info for objects that don’t move.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I'm proud of this moment, leveraging some recent dynamic lightmap tech built into Copper. Once the player has unlocked all the silver gates, they press two buttons to open a ceiling hatch, and climbs a spiral stairwell into the sunlight. However, building these spiral stairs was a bit annoying.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Add 2D shadows and canvas SDF to OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67639 ). Rendering: Fix cluster_render.glsl failing on some Macs ( GH-67746 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Support for materials with emission also exists, allowing full scene lighting using emissive materials: A great advantage of this technique compared to other implementations (such as Enlighten or any other lightmap-based baking), is that full reflections are possible, with much higher quality than using reflection probes: Finally, dynamic objects get (..)

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

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.

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Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Prioritize the scene to use lightmap to bake AO so that even if HBAO is turned off, the effect is still not bad. ColorGrading is the most cost-effective post-production effect, which can quickly improve the image value of your project. Don’t rely on HBAO too much because it can’t run on low-end machines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2018

Done June 2018. finish lights. implement shadow atlas. depth rendering for shadow mapping. spot light shadows. omni light shadows. billboard support in shaders and editor fixes. BlendSpace1D. Planned July 2018. directional shadows. reflection probes. implement immediate geometry. merge into master branch. Details about work in June 2018.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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. Both indirect light and voxel reflections are provided by this technique. It's also very easy to use.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. Fixed issues. Here are some of the more visible bugs fixed in this release. See the full changelog for details. Copy/pasting from the editor on X11 will now work more reliably. Fixed missing text in some FileDialog buttons.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

Done May 2018. enviroment relections. cubemap filtering. implement BRDF. omni lights. lambert+phong. normal maps. rewrite OAHashMap to use RobinHood hashing. improved C++ bindings compilation workflow. fixed a GDNative binary compatibility bug. Planned June 2018. finish lights. shadow mapping. reflection probes. get NativeScript 1.1

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

This basically means you can only bake lightmaps using a single machine. If this sounds like a foreign language to you, don’t worry. You will learn these terms in time the more you use Unity, a Unity camera, and Unity Cinemachine. This limitation is likely to change as Unity developers are working on a solution.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Use baked lightmaps instead. As this back-end is intended to run on the lowest end hardware possible, shaders need to be kept very small. As such all lighting is done by using a forward multi-pass approach. GIProbes of course don't work. GPU-based Particles will not work as there is no transform feedback support.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Input: Allow checking for exact matches with Action events ( GH-50874 ). iOS: Add pen pressure support for Apple Pencil ( GH-47469 ). iOS: Add option to automatically generate icons and launch screens ( GH-49464 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Input: Exposed setters for sensor values ( GH-53742 ). iOS: Add pen pressure support for Apple Pencil ( GH-47469 ). iOS: Add option to automatically generate icons and launch screens ( GH-49464 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link]. iOS: Disable half float on GLES2 via platform override ( GH-54229 ). iOS: Add pen pressure support for Apple Pencil ( GH-47469 ). iOS: Support multiple plist types in plugin ( GH-49802 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link]. iOS: Disable half float on GLES2 via platform override ( GH-54229 ). iOS: Add pen pressure support for Apple Pencil ( GH-47469 ). iOS: Support multiple plist types in plugin ( GH-49802 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. If you are looking to add that extra bit of quality when running on high-end devices, rendering contributor Clay John ( clayjohn ) brings you Screen Space Indirect Lighting.

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