Global Illumination and Point Light Shadows Preview

Honestly engine improvement are all cool but unless they fix a performance issue, It's not something I consider high priority and I would not announce that kind of stuff just before a league, it just give players the impression they arent working on the meaningful stuff especially if the league balance at the start is bad (which happen too often to our liking)

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ffogell wrote:

Honestly engine improvement are all cool but unless they fix a performance issue, It's not something I consider high priority and I would not announce that kind of stuff just before a league, it just give players the impression they arent working on the meaningful stuff especially if the league balance at the start is bad (which happen too often to our liking)

what i always find strange is that people think a software company can only work on one thing at a time. so you think it would be useful to let light artists and engine programmers work on balance? How exactly do you imagine this would work?

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Seems the concensus here is performance rules, visuals no. Imho, put the graphics enhancements in a top tier supporter pack. Sure why not, I’ll upgrade my system too.

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loCurnus wrote:

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TauOrigin wrote:

Can we turn off this "Illumination and Point Light Shadows"?

really? did you read the post?


We've made GI an optional feature that player can toggle on and off based on their
preferences. This feature will be turned off by default on PC. We expect it to be enabled on Xbox One X.

It didn't answer his question tho.

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Kc2693 wrote:

Will turning global illumination on reduce character light radius?? Or will there be an option to do so? I really love the look of the scourge arrow clip. No light except skills. I want it. Pls. I thrive in the darkness.

To reduce light radius you can take the passive node "Arcane Vision", and have no ES/use Mask of the Stitched Demon or Mask of the Spirit Drinker.

Looks Great! I wish it was implemented already!

Looks very nice when you have 0 light radius. In reality it's not going to make such a difference. That's why they had to make the videos without any player light to demonstrate the changes.

If you want to improve graphics then make new textures for all the old areas. This is going to make a huge difference. Much more than any shadow tech. But of course this takes time and resources. Much more than writing a new shader.

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Nephalim wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

So... time to buy another video card, looks like.

Have a 1070, think SLI-ing it up with a second one would help?

Do you have fps issues currently with a 1070?

i know i do with my laptop sporting a 1070.. its not constant but i frequently get drops to 20 fps.
usually happens when there are just a ton of mobs on the screen, using my main skill molten strike, and having the big map overlay on over the screen.

i almost always play with the map open but it really seems to affect fps more than anything.

Holy hell GGG. Optimize your damn game before you keep slapping in more things to stress it out. I imagine something is fucked up when every kind of card from old to newer have some kind of problem.

Game shouldn't need a goddamn high end card anyway. I have games that look way batter and run better than this overhead crap that shouldn't be stressing out so much with subpar textures and models.

It's all of this FX shit they keep dumping in.