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APC Home Update 1.091 Released: Lighting Fixes

Added 2023-08-29 23:04:50 +0000 UTC

Hey all. Hope everyone had a good summer.

Still keeping busy, myself. Starfield hits early access on Friday, and my hope is to get a first impression video together for you then. I'm also working on new updates to PANPC and PACE - just because we'll have a new game to play, that doesn't mean I'm walking away from the Wasteland anytime soon.

For now, I've got an update to APC Home Update for you. No new features, so if you're happy with v1.08, feel free to stay there for now.

This has more to do with lighting mods, such as Lightweight Lighting Overhaul, that add godray data to placed lights throughout the game. That adds lots of new rendering tasks for the engine to perform, especially wherever light and shadow are involved, and in mods that go reasonably heavy on placed lights (such as APC Home) the end result is often a game being slammed by stutter and serious FPS drops.

In this version, I've reverted all lighting inside the APC to the original vanilla versions, making them all immune to third party lighting mods.

Note that this ONLY affects the lights inside the APC - everything else will be untouched. The APC, however, will now look and work as intended, regardless of what lighting mods you are using.

As always, available in the #apc-home-update channel on the GreslinGames Discord.

- G.