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Essential Ray Tracing SDKs for Game and Professional Development

Nvidia

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. With NRD, developers can create visuals that rival ground-truth images with as little as a half of a ray cast per pixel.

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GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #7

Mircosoft Game Dev

As mentioned before, in order to know which pixels are "in a shadow" and which are lit, the scene has to be rendered from the viewpoint of the light. Each pixel that gets potentially illuminated by the light source has to check if it's in a shadow or not. Done June 2018. finish lights. implement shadow atlas. BlendSpace1D.

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. More rendering improvements. For Godot 4.0,

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

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