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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<class name="VoxelGI" inherits="VisualInstance3D" version="4.0">
+ <brief_description>
+ Real-time global illumination (GI) probe.
+ </brief_description>
+ <description>
+ [VoxelGI]s are used to provide high-quality real-time indirect light to scenes. They precompute the effect of objects that emit light and the effect of static geometry to simulate the behavior of complex light in real-time. [VoxelGI]s need to be baked before using, however, once baked, dynamic objects will receive light from them. Further, lights can be fully dynamic or baked.
+ Having [VoxelGI]s in a scene can be expensive, the quality of the probe can be turned down in exchange for better performance in the [ProjectSettings] using [member ProjectSettings.rendering/global_illumination/voxel_gi/quality].
+ [b]Note:[/b] Meshes should have sufficiently thick walls to avoid light leaks (avoid one-sided walls). For interior levels, enclose your level geometry in a sufficiently large box and bridge the loops to close the mesh.
+ </description>
+ <tutorials>
+ <link title="GI probes">https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/3d/voxel_gi.html</link>
+ <link title="Third Person Shooter Demo">https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/678</link>
+ </tutorials>
+ <methods>
+ <method name="bake">
+ <return type="void" />
+ <argument index="0" name="from_node" type="Node" default="null" />
+ <argument index="1" name="create_visual_debug" type="bool" default="false" />
+ <description>
+ Bakes the effect from all [GeometryInstance3D]s marked with [constant GeometryInstance3D.GI_MODE_BAKED] and [Light3D]s marked with either [constant Light3D.BAKE_DYNAMIC] or [constant Light3D.BAKE_STATIC]. If [code]create_visual_debug[/code] is [code]true[/code], after baking the light, this will generate a [MultiMesh] that has a cube representing each solid cell with each cube colored to the cell's albedo color. This can be used to visualize the [VoxelGI]'s data and debug any issues that may be occurring.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="debug_bake">
+ <return type="void" />
+ <description>
+ Calls [method bake] with [code]create_visual_debug[/code] enabled.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ </methods>
+ <members>
+ <member name="data" type="VoxelGIData" setter="set_probe_data" getter="get_probe_data">
+ The [VoxelGIData] resource that holds the data for this [VoxelGI].
+ </member>
+ <member name="extents" type="Vector3" setter="set_extents" getter="get_extents" default="Vector3(10, 10, 10)">
+ The size of the area covered by the [VoxelGI]. If you make the extents larger without increasing the subdivisions with [member subdiv], the size of each cell will increase and result in lower detailed lighting.
+ </member>
+ <member name="subdiv" type="int" setter="set_subdiv" getter="get_subdiv" enum="VoxelGI.Subdiv" default="1">
+ Number of times to subdivide the grid that the [VoxelGI] operates on. A higher number results in finer detail and thus higher visual quality, while lower numbers result in better performance.
+ </member>
+ </members>
+ <constants>
+ <constant name="SUBDIV_64" value="0" enum="Subdiv">
+ Use 64 subdivisions. This is the lowest quality setting, but the fastest. Use it if you can, but especially use it on lower-end hardware.
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="SUBDIV_128" value="1" enum="Subdiv">
+ Use 128 subdivisions. This is the default quality setting.
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="SUBDIV_256" value="2" enum="Subdiv">
+ Use 256 subdivisions.
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="SUBDIV_512" value="3" enum="Subdiv">
+ Use 512 subdivisions. This is the highest quality setting, but the slowest. On lower-end hardware this could cause the GPU to stall.
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="SUBDIV_MAX" value="4" enum="Subdiv">
+ Represents the size of the [enum Subdiv] enum.
+ </constant>
+ </constants>
+</class>