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   LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 00:34:11 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

   No wonder the game is running like shit. I mean, look at it. It has literally 0 baked shadows. In a static environment, that is considered THE most basic optimalization method. That is 0th class.

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     :meru_mewwuluv: b e a r d (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 00:40:42 JST :meru_mewwuluv: b e a r d

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     @LukeAlmighty I have a deep disdain for modern day lighting techniques

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 00:44:39 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @beardalaxy
     Yeah, they are quite special :omegalul:

     The hardest lesson when going from drawing to Blender is, that the more stuff you simulate, the more in depth understanding of topic is required to do even the most basic stuff. A kid can draw a lightsaber on paper. It's a white middle surrounded by color aura.

     But, it took me MONTHS of research, before I found out, why none of my lightsaber atempts looked correct in a simulated environment.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 22:07:13 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @beardalaxy
     BRO :omegalul: :gnomed:
     Look at the fucking puzzle at 5:37:00

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8_pu6kFm4&t=20268

     I shit you not, this is the most hilarious shit I saw all year

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     Coded Artist (coded_artist@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 22:48:58 JST Coded Artist

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     @LukeAlmighty Light baking is often abandoned in large or very detailed environments because it often fails to get a good result, takes a long time to perform, and has to be done every time you move anything in the scene.
     Modern lighting techniques and hardware has made it largely obsolete.

     For a good example of this, check out Valheim.
     Lights aren't baked, they just don't cast shadows unless you get close to them.
     And even then, if you stand next to several, only 1 or 2 will cast a shadow, looks good enough, and very performant.

     What happened here is actually much worse than not baking lights.

     Everything in the scene appears to be a dynamic, as opposed to a static, shadow caster.
     They literally just placed a directional light with dynamic shadows on everything and called it a day.

     To make the windows appear brighter, they cranked up the value on the directional light.
     That's why when E;R turned off shadows, it turned entire scenes into flashbangs.

     Indoor scenes like that shouldn't be illuminated with a directional light at all, they just got lazy, and instead of making some effect on the windows (Pic B), they relied on the lighting system to do the work for them (Pic A).

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 23:06:14 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @coded_artist
     Thank you for the detailed analysis. In the case of game like Life is Strange though, each level is taking in a place with 0 physics and only a few dinamic entities. Unless it's an NPC, it's prety much static. That is why I assumed baking shadows to be the preffered technique.

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     Coded Artist (coded_artist@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 23:31:48 JST Coded Artist

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     @LukeAlmighty These days you can just mark a mesh as a static shadow caster.

     I watched the stream, the game slowed down when E;R turned the shadows back on to solve the star puzzle because it was barely visible without them.
     The drop in performance is telling.
     It takes a special kind of incompetence to make a scene this poorly optimized.
     I wouldn't even consider optimization in a small room like that.
     Some of the meshes there must be VERY detailed for no reason, and have no LODs.

     Also I forgot to mention, the fix for this is trivial, and would've taken 20 minutes at the most, per scene.

     Some people still bake shadows, but usually only when they want their stuff to look good while working on a potato or mobile.
     Some games bake shadows into textures, which is usually frowned upon, but it can help improve performance a lot, since it can save on use of normal maps.
     I think Borderlands 1 did that.

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     Coded Artist (coded_artist@gameliberty.club)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 23:40:35 JST Coded Artist

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     @LukeAlmighty Forgot the pic.
     Literally a checkbox.

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     :meru_mewwuluv: b e a r d (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 10:34:12 JST :meru_mewwuluv: b e a r d

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     @LukeAlmighty well he's playing it at absolute bare minimum settings it looks like so no wonder the puzzle is ass.