Re: [CsMain] Branching CS

[Seth G. <sga...@li...>]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Benjamin Sprague wrote:

> >dmburg is only one sector and contains 36 lights I believe.
> 
> Yeah, that's why dynamic lighting is S--L--O--W in dmburg Ok, but they
> aren't all visible at the same time, are they? We would need a
> light-culling algo to pre-calculate where lights are visible.

Can we use the PVS from the light's perspective to determine what surfaces
are potentially affected by the light?  This way we use some
precalculation we were going to have to do anyway, and it should still
work with dynamic lights - which is what hardware accelerated lighting
will be used for.
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