Allow baking VoxelGI nodes off the main-thread by TitanNano · Pull Request #116833 · godotengine/godot
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Implementation of Proposal godotengine/godot-proposals#14243. VoxelGI::bake runs on and blocks the main thread. This makes it impossible to bake nodes without a visible freeze. It is also impossibl...

cross-posted from: https://vger.social/post/35803407

Recently I created a Godot proposal to change VoxelGI nodes so they can use a sub-thread to bake their VoxelGIData. This allows baking more than one VoxelGI node at once, but also to observe the bake progress and show it in, e.g. a progress bar.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/14243

I also created a proposal to expose the bake progress via signals, since it is currently not visible to non-engine code.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/14242

I have already completed the implementation:

Expose VoxelGI bake progress via signals #116600

Allow baking VoxelGI nodes off the main-thread #116833

If you are interested in these changes, please give a thumbs-up to both the proposals and the pull requests. The maintainers already let me know that they will most likely only merge if other people express interest in this.

Please also share it with others that you think might be interested in these changes.