Bioshock Infinite was one of the games Lee had played early on when looking for FPSC:R inspiration. There was only one person in charge of implementing the lighting system in chief, and that developer just published a detailed technical write-up of all the techniques used.



http://solid-angle.blogspot.com/2014/03/bioshock-infinite-lighting.html?m=1



He described it as a hybrid light system using both baked and dynamic lighting:



- Direct lighting was primarily dynamic

- Indirect lighting was baked in lightmaps and light volumes

- Shadows were a mixture of baked shadows and dynamic shadows

- The system handled both stationary and moving primitives



Might be worthwhile for Lee to read through that and see if he can glean any more tips for improving the lighting appearance or performance.

If only Reloaded was up to Infinite's standards.. Even the original Bioshock would be awesome, The water in that game was pretty nice.

Yeah the original Bioshock was the first FPS I played since HL2, with a brand new video card. It's still hard for me to fathom that the opening scene in the water is real-time, it looked so amazing...

Hi,



I'll email the link to Lee so he can read up on this. Thanks for sharing.



Rick