The Lighting Update

Check out our video on alpha 3, with FAQs, talks from the team, and a large QNA at the end!

Additions:

• Keycards

• Respawning

• Desks and drawers

• Basic prop generation

• Keycard buttons

• Light Containment Zone lights

• Off-screen interactables indicator

• Heavy memory optimisations

• Item throwing

• Torch cookies

• Reverb

• Dust

• Epilepsy safety mode

• Batteries

• Volumetric and distance fog

• Posters + wind shaders

• Iron and glass materials

• Reflection probes for reflective surfaces

• Wet floor "work in progress" sign for unfinished areas

• PVS bounds for better room culling

• Physics objects

• Steam validation

• Global illumination

• Material compiler to force compile on game start

• System for randomising lighting

• 173 state transitions

Changes:

• Refactored stepping algorithm

• Lighting overhaul

• Overhauled blinking systems

• Standardised lights

• New keycards designs

• File/system structuring overhaul

• Increased hallway culling aggression

• Replaced all pipes

• New 173 behaviours

• Improved graphical settings to alter more systems

• Updated dev camera with standard environment values

• Updated hallway models

• Improved shader compiler to reduce early stutters

• Improved glass shader

• Changed item descriptions

• Texture handling and formatting

• Heavy material optimisations

Fixes:

• Sliding across doorways gets you stuck