Emil

Didn't expect #Godot area lights to blow up now, but this demo by @passivestar_ is beautiful! For those new to my acc: the area light PR is my Master's Thesis, I've worked on it for more than 1 year, without pay - now, it could be merged any day! 🥹 Support me below!

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@tamat @passivestar_ yes regular shadow maps. Could be calculated by ray-tracing in a physically accurate way

@_cookieBadger @passivestar_ Amazing work. How are the shadows/occlusion resolved? It uses regular shadowmaps from the area center?

Didn't expect #Godot area lights to blow up now, but this demo by @passivestar_ is beautiful! For those new to my acc: the area light PR is my Master's Thesis, I've worked on it for more than 1 year, without pay - now, it could be merged any day! 🥹 Support me below!

@Noojuno thank you so much! <3

@_cookieBadger Thank you for this! Just bought a copy of Asset Placer to support ❤️ Asset Placer also looks so useful, so thanks for making that too!

@ibesora @passivestar_ github.com/CookieBadger/m… -> Thesis.pdf

@_cookieBadger @passivestar_ Is there anywhere to read your master’s thesis?

@SagelessRanger @passivestar_ thank you!! <3

@_cookieBadger @passivestar_ definitely a follow from me, I'll look into your plugins too

@passivestar_ For those who already know me, and use my paid level design plugin (AssetPlacer): I know the last update has been a while, I'd like to confirm that a GDScript version is almost ready + more features coming - it just all takes a long long time, especially the new automated testing

@passivestar_ awesome demo! Thanks for sharing my PR 😊😁

area lights in godot

@passivestar_ Beautiful! Time to merge

PR by @_cookieBadger github.com/godotengine/go…

Yes, even with textures

Behold... Area lights fully support all global illumination methods in #Godot

@MV_Raffa awesome, thanks :D

@_cookieBadger github.com/RPicster/godot… Here you go 👌

On the weekend I was spending a lot of time in #Blender3d and #GodotEngine 4 to work on a small scene. I really, really love the Global Illumination in G4. This is done with one Directional Light.

Happy to be a part of the contributor list again this time 🥳 Godot is shaping up incredibly thanks to all the hard work that is being put into it. Thanks to everybody who dedicates their time to this!

I think I've found ways to make #Godot's built-in material properties work with area lights, textured and uniform-colored. Might post some prettier pictures later. #ScreenshotSunday #IndieDev

@turanszkij @eric_heitz but trying it out, I see it does (first image, at the corners). They seem a bit less jarring than the ones in my implementation (second image).

@turanszkij @eric_heitz Interesting! I did an implementation of it once, but decided to go with LTC, because it supports fresnel reflections better, and my implementation suffered from artifacts at certain rotations, so I wondered if yours does, too

So... Textured Area Lights are ready to be reviewed - I hope they can make it into #Godot 4.7 🙈 I was able to integrate @eric_heitz's area light texture sampling into the forward renderer, lightmaps volumetric fog, and voxelGI. #ScreenshotSaturday #GodotEngine #GameDev