I did a raw test and used 6 of the seven available lights. I thought I used them all but I missed green. This is still three more than the three max before. Again, great job Preben. The video is turning off and then on the lights.



You can have up to 38 dynamic lights by default. I'm hard-pressed to see using much more. The default is dynamic (not static) when first placed on the map. I am not sure what "terrainlights" lights are but the max is 20. I have not tested the default "terrainlightfadedistance" of 4500 as yet. I'm not sure one can script it but you can change it in the setup.ini file.

Hi Flatlander,


That is per mesh , so if you add a house , that house can have a max of 38 lights , but if you add another house to your level this house can now also have 38 lights , so there is not a limit to how many lights you can have on a level , only how many lights a single object can have at the same time.

maxterrainlights=20 , is how many lights there can be lit at any time on the terrain , if you have more then 20 on the terrain then the terrain lights will fade away at this distance "terrainlightfadedistance=4500" ( same as the shadows ).

The terrain was made this way , as the terrain can really be a FPS killer , so doing it this way you can control how many lights you want to be lit at the same time on the terrain , allow you to control Speed vs. Visuals.

This is not the case with entities , they will only do light calculation based on what lights is hitting them, so they can have any amount of lights lit at the same time

Thanks, Preben for sorting out my misunderstandings about all this. Had no idea what you had meant about meshes but its a lot more clear me now. All I can say is wow! You definitely have demonstrated your excellence in using C++ within the DX11 environment. You done did a swish. Yes!