what does -staticproplighting actually do?

[Shinobi]

EDIT, nm I think I figured it out

 

[msleeper]

Mind sharing with the rest of the class?

 

[Kester^]

I wish people would reveal their solutions to help others rather than edit their posts with crap like "ignore this, problem sovled".

 

[Crispy]

Kester, unless you don't know the answer yourself, haven't you just done the same thing? (I don't know)

 

[Shinobi]

sorry, I didnt realise other people were interested, I'll make it a point in the future to explain my solution when I figure it out


what it seems to do is light the model with per-vertex lighting rather than per-model lighting


so basically if you have a lot of verts on a model and you have a shadow (say cast from a celiing beam in front of a light) the model will attempt to receive the shadow accurately rather than just sample one point and light the entire model according to that sample

kind of like a vertex lightmap if that makes sense

 

[Crispy]

So it's more detailed lighting on models.

 

[Shinobi]

So it's more detailed lighting on models.

lol, being concise is definately not one of my strong points

 

[Crispy]

I just wanted to make sure I was understanding properly. Any info on how much more expensive this is?

 

[Shinobi]

I just wanted to make sure I was understanding properly. Any info on how much more expensive this is?

it should actually have 0% performance difference

this is because it's vertex lit

so when the model is rendered each vertex has to have a lighting value regardless of whether the model is lit per-vertex or per-model

so the only performance difference is that it should add about 5% to the VRAD compile time

 

[Crispy]

Nice! That's good to know.