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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). 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. What are the performance limitations?

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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

(engine#14218) [XR] AR engine module update Fix shadowmap lowp with huawei and reflection probe brightness (engine#14058) Fix shader compilation error with the new version of lightmap (engine#14071) Fix unsynchronized model data issue when adding lod levels dynamically (engine#14054) Fix the issue that lod is not working properly when forced to use (..)

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Import: Print a warning when importing a repeating NPOT texture in a GLES2 project ( GH-48817 ). 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

SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. What can it do? As long as walls are thicker than a voxel for a given cascade, light won't go through.

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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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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). The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

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. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately.

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