Voxel Lighting Idea

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#88751501Friday, February 08, 2013 8:04 AM GMT

http://blog.roblox.com/2013/02/dynamic-lighting-and-shadows-the-voxel-solution/ Make it so you can toggle the option to calculate on the GPU, rather on the CPU.

getkoed

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#88754779Friday, February 08, 2013 12:49 PM GMT

Not sure if this actually is an idea or if you're just trying to sound smart

GeekEthan

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#88755173Friday, February 08, 2013 1:04 PM GMT

If you calculate it on the GPU, wouldn't it lag? I think that's why they WANT it to be calculated on the CPU.

sonickyle

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#88763622Friday, February 08, 2013 4:35 PM GMT

But it'll lag on Duel Core (and Below) processors if you are doing other stuff at the same time (eg. Saving/Moving big files). Still, there's no reason why the option would not be implemented.

Tesouro

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#88763901Friday, February 08, 2013 4:40 PM GMT

@getkoed lol

Notunknown99

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#88764068Friday, February 08, 2013 4:44 PM GMT

@gamer: The GPU (or graphics proccessing unit) is built onto your graphics chip so that programs can use it to calculate rendering effects, such as lighting. Therefore its smart to put it on the GPU rather than CPU.

Zephyrical

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#88764196Friday, February 08, 2013 4:46 PM GMT

Featherweight bricks run on GPU (if your computer can handle it/has to be brand new since both of my strong computers don't have it), so this will too.