CryEngine 3.7 Released / A Bounce for the Better ?

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The light clipping volume!!!

I did something similar in an engine I wrote back in the day. Made lighting up interiors with dynamic lighting so much easier. Hopefully we can have something like this, and usable in blueprints, not just level editor volumes.

This would really help lighting interiors if you aren’t using any light mass baked lighting, like say, for a randomly generated level. That’s why volume editing should be doable in blueprints and not just in editor. (Some day)

You can also hack indirect lighting by making adjacent light volumes smoothly light each other up. If a door between areas opens, make the light from one area contribute a bit to the brightness of an adjacent area.

It was something I requested heavily from them. They had lightshapes before but with the deferred setup they became obsolete. It really does help in interior lighting. Having to rotate and move duplicate probes around a room was a nightmare. Best part now is no longer needing the visareas for all things. They are good for optimization but past that a nightmare.