Future Is Bright: Phase 3 - Studio Beta

This is incredibly beautiful. Gives a good look for games.

I’m incredibly impressed but there’s still a long way to go.

https://gyazo.com/f9ed8e355103aa1fa1cdef92d42db86e

Is this a feature?

/s

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Its sad to see how downgraded the shadows were but its still an amazing update none the less


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This is simply amazing, three cheers to the engineers at Roblox! Wondering if the lighting will be adjusted brighter though, as it’s quite darker than its predecessors.

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Interesting lighting artifacts with a surface light, range set to 60, angle set to 0 or 1, and brightness at 10. Sorry if this is beating a dead horse, I just can’t read all of the 272 messages.

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More eye candy!


These material “reflections” are amazing!

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Is there an estimate on when this will be out of Studio Beta, and be usable in game?

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I was not at all expecting this awesome news
This post made my day thx Roblox

Video:

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I wonder why they did that tho… i suppose it’s just because they’re trying to make it more performance oriented but having and option for the higher quality ones using like some kind of option to change the dependence of the graphics to the GPU would really help with future graphics updates.

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ShadowMap:

Future:


Another great update again @Roblox!

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Very happy to see fib finally be added, but metal seems to be way too dark


Edit: Setting material of metal parts to marble seems to be a good enough workaround for now

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To describe this in one word, stunning.

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The game isn’t released yet, it will release August - September. But I assume it’s gonna run fine, if you can run vehicle sim at 30 FPS or so, you can run this at 60 FPS easily

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Rocky is right. I used a model with lower resolution textures, less polygons, no interior, and some missing components for the “reflection”. It’s more performant than I thought it would be, makes sense given that computers nowadays are more than capable of moving that many polygons.

Still will add a setting to disable them - some mobile users will struggle

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Very nice update!

I just gotta up my lighting game haha.

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So will normal maps and specular maps be next after this? I can’t wait for jailbreak to release the new lighting too, the bank and j store are gonna look great and i cant wait for museum.

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I can’t believe my eyes… It’s beautiful!

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Looks amazing! Can’t wait to test it out. :slight_smile:

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I feel like Lighting.ShadowSoftness should affect Light instances.

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Possibly, but right now it acts like real lighting, the closer the light instance is to the part that its creating the shadow off of, the cleaner the shadow is. But the further away it is, the shadow is softer. So it wouldn’t exactly make sense for it to affect it.

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