Dynamic Lighting: Disabling it on Pieces

This will only have 2 main effects aesthetics wise.

1.) No shadows generated
2.) Lighted up object in shadow/dark room

The first ain't really a difference but the second one is but I can't think of a use for it because a lighted object surrounded by dark objects looks ugly. Unless you would want to delay spawn a whole room that is roofed so the room isn't so dark. Good attention to detail and thanks for sharing.

 

This isn't necessarily a new discovery among forgers, but it is an important one.
Aesthetically, it works great for enclosed maps, for both brightening up the indoors, and reducing framerate lag.

Now for the issues with it. If someone joins your game late, the lighting will load for them, and make everything as dark or laggy as it would be without the trick. And second, if you do this for flooring pieces, any weapons you have on the ground or piece not spawning right away the weapon will fall through the floor and not be there until it respawns later in the game.

It is however a useful trick I had to use on my Orbital remake. I reccommend it if it helps gameplay at all.

 

One workaround is to use two weapons - the one with the timer you'd like, not spawning at start, and a drop-spawned weapon set to never respawn and spawn at start.

This only works if you have enough vertical space and the weapon is accessible easily off-start (eg; snipe in base) to prevent despawning.

I wouldn't be worried about anything but power weapons as for spawning at start - everyone gets a good load of ammo at the beginning of the match.

 

Wouldn't this theoretically help fix the shadow glitch as well if the OLN is below the glitching number?

 

i'm using this trick some, or at least experimenting with it.

there are some pieces where it's extremely useful asthetically, and some others where it gets very tricky and may not be worth it in teh long run.

in my case, I do not really need to avoid using shadow budget, but wanted to intentionally light-up enclosed spaces.

 

I find it pretty stupid that we would even have to do this "trick" at all in forge.

Could someone give an example of this trick? Like pics or something.

 

I have a block hooked up to a station core, which doesn't cast a shadow at all, so if you want the added piece to look like it is part of the core, you use this trick on that block piece.

I also use some pieces as a sign or indicator. making that piece brighter by not calculating lighting for it is useful so it pops out of the wall more. For instance, i use a triangle on the wall to indication you can go "up" there (triangle pointing up of course)

 

have you noticed an advantage to making it spawn at 10 sec vs the 2 sec others have suggested?

is there any reason to have some spawn at different inervals so that the game isn't doing it all at once?

BTW, the choice of certain blocks you've used the trick on does still make the areas in your screenshots look more or less naturally lit and not gimmicky. Good Job. May I ask which pieces in your screenshots were flagged this way? (tricked out)