buglunch on 9/12/2003 at 03:17
I did all the research on GF cards 18 months ago towards getting Unreal2, DXII and Thief III and found out about GF4 MXes then, so I got a GF3 ti200. Always do your homework, kiddies!
Gingerbread Man on 9/12/2003 at 03:22
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Originally posted by heywood But for PC gamers, dynamic lighting just isn't worth the performance hit anyway.
Especially since you can do damn near exactly the same thing (albeit "fake" -- whatever that means in a faked 3-dimensional game environment ;) ) with Projectors etc. Only real reason I can see for full-on dynamic lighting would be if stealth was handled with a visibility meter / light gem (which was one of the original design concepts, wasn't it?)
Certainly isn't worth it for flaming barrels and the occasional searchlight. You don't even need dynamic lighting on that scale to do proper shadowcasting of Player and AI.
