This should be less of a drag on the playsim than having each light a separate actor. A quick check with ZDCMP2 showed that the light processing time was reduced to 1/3rd from 0.5 ms to 0.17 ms per tic.
It's also one native actor class less.
This is for mitigating the recently discovered problem with attenuated lights getting reduced in size, even on OpenGL 3+. The intent of the shrinking was to account for higher brightness of non-attenuated lights on OpenGL 2 and was never meant to be active on more modern versions.
The factor will apply to any attenuated light defined after it and will be inherited by included sub-lumps, but it will only last for the lunp it is set in.
If you have a definition for the broken behavior, AddLightAssociation
'lightsizefactor 0.667' at the top of your GLDEFS.
- with renderers freely switchable, some shortcuts in the 3D floor code had to be removed, because now the hardware renderer can get FF_THISINSIDE-flagged 3D floors.
- changed handling of attenuated lights in the legacy renderer to be adjusted when being rendered instead of when being spawned. For the software renderer the light needs to retain its original values.
