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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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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

Developer Notes Engine Add more API docs (engine#13937, engine#14079, engine#14088) [Optimize] add image asset’s zh i18n (engine#14108) [Optimize] Add pointerlock function for mac platform (engine#14187) [Pipeline] enable custom pipeline in the editor (engine#14084) [Pipeline] add native pipeline ubo uploading (engine#14061) [Pipeline] Fix web-pipeline (..)

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. The biggest challenge of this workflow is not the lightmap itself, but the fact that it should be easy to use (which is Godot's #1 design priority). The smaller this value, the bigger the lightmaps will be.

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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

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. including animations,effects,models,shaders,ui,sounds and so on. Let’s take a look at each of them one by one.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

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Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. (contributed by @May2nd ) ● Fixed remote bundles loading failed issue when running in GameView. Fixed error caused by removeSpotLight on native platforms. Fixed Planar Shadow not showing when GPU INSTANCING is enabled.

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Cocos

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader.

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