Any more Basic Lighting improvements planned?

#1 Performance improvements are always on the table... its new feature improvements which may or may not be.

BL is as far as i know crazy fast. Specifically what is your performance problem with BL?

#2 Running with low end cards(I usually dev with a built in 7100) it lags compared to running TGEA. I probably get 10 FPS with only BL running. 3 FPS with AL on but that is expected. I can get 35+ FPS with TGEA and TGE. Now on higher end cards, I do get better FPS with BL than with TGE or TGEA.

Edit: I should say that is 10 FPS on a pretty blank zone. It is probably 5 FPS with a somewhat populated zone.

#3 There is no reason to get 10fps on a blank level. Sounds like an unintended side effect or bug. I'll investigate it.

THREED-897

#4 Appreciate it. Hopefully you get same results as verification. Would love to switch over. Liking T3D more and more as a play with it.

But unfortunately, I've actually got players with lower cards even than my 7100 so can't make that jump as it is.

#5 Force T3D to run with 2.0 shaders instead of 3.0. The utter low end cards are often terrible when running at the limits of their specs (so a shitty SM 3.0 card is bad at running SM3.0 games, but should do better in SM 2.0).

These are the script lines to do it:

$pref::Video::forcePixVersion = true;
$pref::Video::forcedPixVersion = 2.0;

T3D's BL lighting shader is a lot more complex than TGEA's, since it does 4 lights in a single pass, while TGEA uses multi pass, so in a completely empty scene it does use more shader processing.

#6 Unfortunately didn't help :(

#7 Probably not going to help but perhaps ripping out the code for projected decal shadowing ... ?

I'm intending on canning it when I decide on a final build.

#8 I'm also going to be working in BL mostly as my hardware and target hardware are on the older side, though it is nice having AL for those with powerful systems

@Steve and Manoel: Thanks for the tips I'll have to check those out.

#9 @CSMP
You can actually disable the dynamic shadows by editing core/scripts/client/defaults.cs rather than ripping the code out.

key["$pref::Shadows::disable"] = true;//was false