im trying to optimize my game and i have 205 light sources ( 149 surface lights, 38 spot lights and 18 point lights). is it something i should optimize? and in general, how much is too many lights?
my game thecnology is set to shadowMap
Editing the properties of the lights will definitely help. I do suggest that if you are looking for very good lighting properties, YouTube is very helpful. If you take like 10–20 minutes watching some videos on it, you could maybe find one you love or even base yours off of their videos and create one unique and special to you. Just mess around with the lights until it looks good to you. Also, make sure that the lighting isn’t to distracting from your actual game. (Could you also provide pictures?)
do you really need all of those? If you have like 5 lamps in one spot do you really need 1 light in every single lamp? Its already on shadowmap so if you just have one big light itll look the exact same
It shouldnt cause much lag at all on shadowmap though