- Make 3D lights with shadows darker when using Compatibility to better
match the appearance of Forward+/Mobile, due to the use of sRGB blending
for those lights.
- Silence some warnings when running projects with the Compatibility
rendering method, such as the one about 2D MSAA not being supported.
- Rebake lightmaps in Global Illumination to improve quality and reduce
light leaking with improvements from 4.3.
- Increase probe density for dynamic objects, and mark the moving box
as a dynamic object for GI purposes.
This is done to improve the experience with the web-based demos,
which always run with the Compatibility rendering method.
This provides mouse sensitivity that is independent of the viewport
size, without needing to query for project settings.
This also inverts the mouse motion direction in the 3D navigation demo
to better match expectations, and increases mouse sensitivity in the
Window Management demo to be closer to other demos.
- Add reflection probes for each test sphere, which can be toggled using
a new dropdown with 3 options (no reflection probe, reflection only,
reflection + ambient). The cull and reflection masks are configured
on each reflection probe so that spheres don't self-reflect, but other
spheres still appear in each sphere's reflections. Probe extents are made
very large to prevent any visible fading, and the test beds don't
receive the reflection probe's ambient or reflection.
- Improve ice material visuals by giving it some opacity.
- Use lossless compression on all textures, as their relatively low
resolution and count by today's standards makes them not use much VRAM
anyway.
The 3D demos aren't very demanding and Godot has been optimized
a bit since 4.0's release, so we can afford using higher quality
shadow settings for less noisy shadow filtering.
This also tweaks shadow bias to reduce shadow acne in the Voxel demo.
The time slider in the Physical Light and Camera units demo now
allows for more precise adjustments.
This leads to code that is easier to understand and runs
faster thanks to GDScript's typed instructions.
The untyped declaration warning is now enabled on all projects
where type hints were added. All projects currently run without
any untyped declration warnings.
Dodge the Creeps and Squash the Creeps demos intentionally don't
use type hints to match the documentation, where type hints haven't
been adopted yet (given its beginner focus).
- Move all demo projects that don't require Forward+/Mobile-only features
to the Compatibility rendering method. This improves performance significantly
on low-end devices and ensures visuals are identical to a web export
of the demo.
- Set deadzone on all inputs to 0.2 for better gamepad usability.
- Remove reliance on `default_env.tres` to use built-in Environment
resources in the main scene instead (which follows the preview environment
workflow).
- Remove notices pointing to GDNative or VisualScript, since both were
removed in 4.0.
- Various bug fixes and usability tweaks to 10+ demos.
All demos were opened with Godot 4.2.1, with the mesh format
upgraded for 3D demos.
The 3D antialiasing demo now uses Extra Cull Margin on the last
object to prevent it from disappearing too early when the camera
rotates (due to its use of shader-based animation).
A GLES2-specific tweak is now documented for the GUI in 3D demo.
This also tweaks shadow quality and performance to find a better
balance and result in smoother shadows, including when using GLES2
(thanks to the use of PCF13 shadow filter mode).
In demos that allow falling back to GLES2, ETC1 texture import
is enabled to allow exporting to Android or HTML5 without having
to tweak anything.
- Enable anisotropic filtering in 3D demos, and set the quality to
16× on desktop and 4× on mobile.
- Enable 4× MSAA on some 3D demos that didn't use it beforehand.
- On GLES3 demos, disable MSAA on mobile as these demos are often
more demanding.
- Use more conservative framebuffer allocation settings for better
performance.
- Use PCF13 shadow filtering in GLES2 demos on desktop to benefit
from soft shadows in Godot 3.2.4 and later.
In Godot 3.2.3, this will make shadows smoother but still "blocky".
- Use Lossless compression instead of VRAM compression for
small textures such as the voxel demo texture atlas.
This is required to benefit from crisp display on hiDPI monitors.
This also fixes issues related to fullscreen and input handling
when using an hiDPI display on Windows.
- Enable 4× MSAA in all 3D demos.
- Enable filmic tonemapping with a whitepoint of 6 in GLES3 3D demos.
- Add subtle fog to the Truck Town demo.
- Use the `2d` stretch mode and `expand` stretch aspect to support
multiple resolutions and aspect ratios.
This makes demos render correctly on hiDPI displays,
while also demonstrating how to handle multiple resolutions.
The 3D in 2D demo now uses "3D No-Effects" for the 3D viewport,
which is faster to render. Thanks to this, 4× MSAA is now enabled
for a better result.
The background loading demo now uses mipmaps for better-looking images.
The material testers demo now samples mouse input in a
resolution-independent manner when panning.
Default clear colors were also changed in some projects for visual
consistency with the project's theme.
Importing ETC2 textures is slow and requires a lot of RAM, so it
makes sense to disable it. Those who would like to run the demo
on mobile platforms can re-enable it in the Project Settings.
Noticed a lot of error spat out because of unnormalized basis.
I simply followed the suggestion to use get_rotation_quat() instead of using constructor of Quat(x).
