Blitz3d Performance And Lights

nothing specific... just your opinion on whether or not adding lights via CreateLight affects the performance of Blitz3d...

... and if so, by how much.

thx

--Mike

It does, but you'd be crazy not to use lights, and the performance impact surely isn't great enough to offset the vast improvement dynamic lights bring to an app.

Not to mention the spectacular shading effects that could be realised by using dynamic lights and say - SSwift's Shadow System? Eh? EH? ;)

+BlackD

2-3 lights can be ok, but more and lower spec systems really start to feel the pain.

Fewer the better but usually you need at least one to light the models realistically and dynamically. Like Evak said 2-3 is maximum I'd use even if 8 is DX limit (I think)... but using 8 lights would cause serious slowdowns, even on good hardware. This can be tested easily if you need to.

2 or 3 is all you need. Even ut2004 didn't need more than that. Lighting the character can be done seperately from the characters' entitycolor, that is, use lights for effect and overall shading, and EntityColor for brightness/hue near 'fake' light and shadow.

thanks guys... good input

--Mike