With new update we need new lighting

[Messa(SK)]

With this new update we should be get new light for factory. Right now light are directional( under lamp bright, but 2 m off is drastically lower), It should by nice get lamps with spread lighting.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

True, global illumination makes the shadows much darker. Caves become pitch black.

Yesterday we removed the fog on the map and it did reinforced this effect a lot. It got really dark also outside of factories. Fog is dispersing light and without the shadows become much harder. I saw videos from UE5.2 and UE 5.3 where the opposite happened: All shadows became softer.

If you look at the commando list then one must guess that lightning is a very tricky thing. I think they are well aware and still on the quest to improve.

[pALESS_]

Lights they're reluctant to change because it already hits the performance pretty hard.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

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[Messa(SK)]

But as well ceiling light don't help. It is light under this light but on side nothing,, so if you want to bring light inside factory you have to use ceiling light side by side..

[Lawn-Mower]

Originally posted by Messa(SK):

But as well ceiling light don't help. It is light under this light but on side nothing,, so if you want to bring light inside factory you have to use ceiling light side by side..

You do realise the wall-mount lights are tiltable don't you? You can even get them tilting up a bit. Not as floody as the others, but they still certainly still do well enough, though the emitted light can also be a little buggy.

And with GI, signs set to max (3) glow also emit light now (in some cases the GI even handles it better than light emitted from powered lights). I'm relying on glowing signs for nice soft lighting far more than powered lights... With a little careful thinking/experimenting, they can be angled/arranged in nearly any configuration you can dream of. They add tremendous atmosphere, and you're not limited to a small global colour set.

[Thjaffi]

the problem with the lights at the actual state is, they are really huge. small areas indoor are nearly impossible to brighten, besides the thing with the sign set to bright white, which i dont like for their look.

i would really love to see smaller ceiling lights or ceiling edge lights.

[Malkuth]

Signs are better lights than the default options. Plenty of youtube videos showing how, and you can come up with your own designs using the Blueprints. its all I use now.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by Messa(SK):

But as well ceiling light don't help. It is light under this light but on side nothing,, so if you want to bring light inside factory you have to use ceiling light side by side..

yes, in Update 8 we have very hard light at moment. the fog is softening it a bit but I am sure they are working hard on it. it's not a trivial thing I guess and needs a lot of finetuning. I speak with global ilumination on. when it's off it seems to be normal like in Update 7