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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). lightmapper.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Several new GLSL built-in functions are exposed to the shader language : radians degrees asinh acosh atanh exp2 log2 roundEven. The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. TextureProgress causes a bad polygon error when the progress percentage is between 62 and 99.

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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. Global illumination (GI).

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Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Implement post process effects: DOF Blur, Bloom and Tone Mapping. TODO for Milestone #4 (January 2017). Add Clustered lighting (before this all is forward). Add Layered/Stencil rendering.

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