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Thanks guys, very much appreciated!

@SWAT_OP-R8R: This is really helpful. thanks! I think we basically are on the same page. And yes, you will need to adapt the light bulb sizes for some fake lights. I already started to do this in our mod.
The automatic exposure definitely needs some more tuning and increased transition time was also feedback I got from other players.
Regarding the asteroid field lighting issues: Yes, a video would be very helpful. I also got a report from testing with Discovery mod which also has problems in some fields. There is some bug I was able to mostly fix, but it is still there in some places: Distant dynamic asteroids can quickly appear and disappear when e.g. you rotate the view quickly.

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I finished version 1.1 beta 1: Download

Preview image:

Example video: Link

This version got a lot larger than originally planned. The renderer now supports clustered shading which allows for thousands of point lights. I plan to extend this for spot lights as well in the future. Note that performance will degrade the more lights have overlapping ranges.

I also added the option to replace those fake lights from FL with real point lights and a much better glow effect using real sphere geometry and PBR bloom. The range of such a point light is three times the glow size. The size of the sphere is the bulb size. You can find those values in DATA\EQUIPMENT\light_equip.ini.

Additionally I implemented automatic camera exposure (was needed, because the scenes are now darker because of all the other fixes). This is an early version and probably will need some more improvements. But it is quite usable already.

There have been many internal changes (more reversed stuff, optimizations and bug fixes, some rewrites (I even wrote test cases for verification (!)), etc.), which will be very helpful for future versions. For that reason I decided to increase the version number to 1.1.

Because of all the changes the graphics again look a lot better than before (you should notice it especially when comparing with older versions).

As always I am looking forward to your feedback

List of changes:

Added clustered shading which allows thousands of point lights (will hopefully be extended to spot lights later on)
Added option to replace fake lights from FL with real point lights
Added much better glow effect when replacing fake lights with real lights using sphere geometry and PBR bloom
Added automatic camera exposure (early version for testing)
Added the option to use precise SRGB colour conversion which improves colours a lot (for transparency this is now always enabled since it caused wrong colours)
Special lights e.g. from explosions etc. are now recognized and will be used automatically
Many internal changes which will be helping a lot in future versions (e.g. used material types etc. are now known)
When using glass materials without textures glass PBR settings are now applied automatically
Improved appearance of light scattering
Light range is now more similar to original FL light range (was too bright previously)
Various optimizations and bug fixes

Laz

There was a typo in the new block that I merged, but I had 4 JSON linters all tell me everything is fine. Sometimes it annoys me how the trailing comma is ‘sometimes’ allowed. The auto-deployment failure was caused by a JS peer dependency resolving to the wrong version.

Laz

@Gold_Sear said in Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques:

EDIT: the sync seems to be lost again: where did I make a typo?

Think it’s unrelated. Something broken with the auto-deployment. I will investigate.

Laz

Took a quick look, looked good, merged.

Laz

I have refactored the V2 page to hopefully be a bit more usable. Please let me know if you encounter bugs or have any feedback about the new design.

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I finished beta 2.2: Download beta 2.2

Example video: FLAR beta 2.2.mp4

The focus was mainly helping modders and smaller improvements.

Changes are:

Added additional developer options window which allows you to reload textures within “FLARDATA\Textures” folder, reload shader, reload “materials.json” file, edit materials live and save the changes (see video for details)
Screenshots are now saved as PNG
Existing keyboard hook will now be recognized and handled accordingly (meaning no crash anymore)
Offset hack for low resolution texture problem on some PCs is now applied on startup
Minor shader cleanup

Note: Texture preview for non power of two texture sizes does currently not work, as the GUI I use does not support it (will fix it later)

To use the new developer options window you have to add the additional key bind “USER_RADAR” the same way as I described for the settings window in my first post.

@Timmy51m Thanks Let me know what you think once you checked it out!

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Thanks Will continue and currently working on the next features (this time the focus is helping modders).

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Regarding the SVN problem: My suggestion is to start the SVN server, check each repo out with git SVN brigde (e.g. Tortoisegit has it integrated right into the clone dialog) and then upload it as a git repo. You can have the full history from SVN this way. You just need to do this correctly. I have some SVN repos checked out as git repo just before it got shut down this way. But not all of them.

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I finished beta 2.1: Download beta 2.1

The focus was mainly rendering bugs / improvements.
Changes are:

Fixed rendering bugs with old lighting (affects also starspheres etc.)
Made old lighting very similar to FL lighting (including cubemaps)
Had a nice idea for nebula ambient lighting. It now is complete PBR lighting
Added option to enable point lights for new lighting. Make sure to remove e.g fake planet reflection point lights from FL system inis before enabling it (will look weird, since planets are like suns then). To enable it, set EnablePointLights=1 in config.cfg.

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