dynamic light rendering ass-raped by one small blinking light?

hey I had added a tiny red light at the top of the scud rocket that had a slow pulse. When I checked my budget I saw that the dynamic light rendering FPS went from 0 to over 100! I mean how is that possible? Should you use dynamic lights at all then?

Nuh, I wouldn't worry about it. Assuming we're talking about the "show budget" command, I've never understood what it is actually saying either and never really looked into it.

The best way I decide "how much more detail the map can fit in" is knowing I have a low end PC, I keep the game running at high graphical settings (high texture detail etc etc) running at 1024x768 and sometimes turn on anti aliasing and just use my mojo to decide what is acceptable.

There is no golden number or amount of polygons or frames per second the map should be running at, it's all relative and dependent on alot of factors.

If you have the dynamic light in and the map getting decent frame rates, it's fine I say.

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if you can get away with it an env_sprite set to pulse looks pretty good, very cheap alternative esp for multiplayer

Dynamic lights are very costly to the source engine. It should be used very sparingly. Like haymaker said, a sprite could achieve the same effect. If you are going to use dynamic lights, then make sure the light map is set to a high resolution to offset the extra calculations used with dynamic lights.

haymaker said:
if you can get away with it an env_sprite set to pulse looks pretty good, very cheap alternative esp for multiplayer

thanks. Imma try that.