Posted June 03, 2023 by shoraaa
- Massive performance improvement. With Full HD resolution and 100 MOVING lighting & 560 shadow segmentI was able to have ~100 fps using my laptop, when the previous version only have ~14fps. It currently not really stable but it can guaranteed to have at least 5x fps increase on heavy dynamic lighting map. There can be even more optimization in the future since I have already have found what the bottleneck is.
- You can now rotate and scale lighting dynamically WITHOUT impact on shadow performance. Which mean you can have almost every dynamic lights in your game to pulsating for more realistic enhancement and don't need to worry about the fps. With that, the pulse animation option is now worked, you can just enable it in your custom light setting and see the effect.
- Various light parameter now working correctly. For example, you can use [light -r 120 -a 45] to have a quick default light with 120% radius and 45 degree andgle.
- Added tint animation. Now you can animate your light in almost everyway possible: rotating, moving, scaling, flickering and changing colors.
- Fixed various bugs. One important bug I encountered is that if you change paramters on one light, every other lights with the same type will have there paramaters changed (thanks for Javascript reference). It has been fixed.
- Updated the demo, with more animating examples and performance testing maps.
- Writing a proper guide for the plugin. I see a lot of people are encountering simple error like "Cannot read properties of underfined", which is almost certainly caused by wrong parameters in custom lights settings. I will try to write a decent complete guide and FAQ to avoid those problems in future. Also, if you encountering any errors with the plugin, make sure to post it here and I will try to help!
- Finally back to this project :D. Thank everyone for still using my plugin! Feel free to ask any questions! Really sorry for past several months without update though, a quite lot of things have gone over in my life. But now I will try my best to developing and doing more commission :D