DLights = serious performance eater


(]UBC[ McNite) #1

Just a short story from mapping Warbell to all who like nifty lighting effects and think of using a dlight for that.

I couldn’t explain myself why with about 90 leafs and 10.000 tris to draw my frames went suck to about 115, and was suspecting small brushwork and collision data calculation.
I was wrong: the dlights had to be blamed. In those leafs I had 7 dlights with 5 different custom stylestrings which gave a very nice effect. After I took them all out, framerates jumped up to 190/200 in the same spot.

Hence the warning: be REAL careful when tinkering with dlights.


(Lanz) #2

That’s not really any news, but I guess it can’t hurt to be said again.