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And when you said 280 lights, that's on screen at any one time? So that's not even in a scene, it's just wherever a person can look?

Chris CampbellLead Lighting Artist

No, exactly. That's just in this camera frame. So there could be another 280 lights behind me. But as long as it's only in the frame, then that's kind of good. So some environments, like big city locations and stuff, the total number of lights in that location could easily exceed 1,000 or 2,000 lights that we actually end up placing. And then we use as many tricks as we can to keep that number down per frame.

Star Citizen Live›Let There Be Light·
Published on this date.4 Sep 2020