Extreme Lag with Point Lights?

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@Reece101

I will give that a try.

@.Neto

A point light with fully dynamic shadows is about the most expensive kind of light in any game engine, full stop. A point light dynamic shadow cost the same as of 6 spot light shadows, because the scene around the light has to be rendered 6 times to produce the 360-degree shadows.

If you pay attention to pretty much every AAA game you’ll notice they very rarely use dynamically shadowed point lights. When point lights are used they are often un-shadowed and have a limited radius to reduce them passing through objects. You can combine a shadow-casting spot light with a small radius point light acting as a “fill light”, for example, and achieve reasonable results.

I tried it but didn’t get very good results.