Technical Info concerning Interiors

[sandor]

Twentieth topic.

Guideline for placing lights.

Originally written by TheImperialDragon
When lighting:

-Minimize the areas where lights conflict with one another
-Minimize the number of lights
-When using a large number of lights, use the fake version then use Lightbulbs.

Here is an example of where the FPS is seriously hit (first screen) because:

a) Too many lights
b) Too many conflicting lights

To fix those FPS problems, you must firstly replace the lights in the areas that have the most conflicts with FPS with fake STATIC ones. Those do not count as lights...

Next, put in lightbulbs in the area, but preferably only one for each set of lights in an area (sometimes more). Refer to the third screen to see what I mean, and don't do what is shown in the second...

Check these links (screenshots).

Too many real lights.
Not like this.
The right way.