0002345: Flickering lighting whenever subspace vortex is nearby

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002345	FSSCP	graphics	public	2010-11-26 15:46	2012-01-24 03:34

Reporter	Fury	Assigned To	Valathil
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	3.6.13
Fixed in Version	3.6.14

Summary	0002345: Flickering lighting whenever subspace vortex is nearby
Description	Ever since lighting and shaders were overhauled in FSO code and FSU shaders, subspace vortexes cause extremely annoying flickering because it competes with other lighting sources with other nearby lighting sources, mostly weapons and explosions. The flickering is really bad particularly during heated battles where there are more than 8 lighting sources. This flickering is mostly evident because subspace vortex lasts so long, compared to weapon effects and explosions. Hence I would suggest altering lighting so that subspace vortex always gains higher priority than weapon and explosion lighting, possibly make it the first lighting source under all circumstances. This should stop flickering.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-11-26 15:46	Fury	New Issue
2012-01-24 03:34	Valathil	Note Added: 0013143
2012-01-24 03:34	Valathil	Status	new => closed
2012-01-24 03:34	Valathil	Assigned To	=> Valathil
2012-01-24 03:34	Valathil	Resolution	open => fixed
2012-01-24 03:34	Valathil	Fixed in Version	=> 3.6.14

Valathil 2012-01-24 03:34 developer ~0013143	This was fixed along many other flickering problems by an early patch of mine where I fixed beam lights taking "ships in range" number of places in the light array thereby causing much problems of flickering.