September 29th, 2023 - Q&A: Curious what you mean when you say you don't support Lumen?

September 29th, 2023

Q&A: Curious what you mean when you say you don't support Lumen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK-kN8QOrJw&t=1662

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    1. Snutt

      I'm curious what you mean when you say you don't officially support Lumen.

      If it's in the game, does that mean that you support it?

      So, this is a really good point, and this is actually something that we've discussed a lot back and forth when we added Lumen to the game.

      For those who don't know, we have support for the, like, one of the new techniques for Glumetal Elimination that Unreal Engine supports, which is Lumen.

      We decided to add that in the game, but the thing is that you sort of need to tailor the lighting system towards Lumen if you have that in your games.

      And we haven't really done that.

      We haven't really tailored the game for Lumen in mind, which means you get like a lot of dark areas and like the exposure is kind of weird in certain situations.

      and it's a lot of work tuning the lighting towards that.

      But we felt that it's such a cool feature and it doesn't really break anything by having that.

      So we felt that if people want to enable Lumen, they can, and if it works for them, then cool, and if it doesn't work, then they can switch it off.

      But we decided to go with the whole thing where we say it's not officially supported because we don't officially support it.

      Like if people are running into issues, then we can't really help them out.

      And if like they're having issues with like graphic card not being able to support Lumen, we also can't really do anything about that.

      And also the phrasing, the wording here with saying it's not officially supported so that people know that the game is in design with Lumen in mind.

      So that's the main reason why we went with that.

      But it is true, the fact that it is in the game is kind of signifying that it is supported.

      we still want to be able to communicate sort of our intention with Lumen, and that is that the game isn't tuned with Lumen in mind, and we don't know if we'll ever tune the game with Lumen in mind.