Progressive Rollout of Future Lighting on Android Devices [Client Beta]

[Lyzrinn]

Thank you for acknowledging this ! Any communication is very much welcomed by the community

[aIpha_mx (alpha)]

I can contribute, it happens to me daily when I set the graphics quality near the maximum. And this problem has been happening to me for months, it’s not something of the Future lighting, I discovered it initially when in an experience they used the grass (terrain) and it was reaching so much that it always crashes the game, just as a fact, but currently it happens to me in almost all of them.

In the video you can see that black spot, in fact I have tried it again and it is difficult to make the bug happen again.
The point is that in this case, what you see of the black spot is a decal with a black .png image simulating a shadow. In other times it has happened to me that in those pixels that “trespass” the things, the avatars,
BillboardGui text, etc. are transparent and in the case of this experience, only the tracks (mesh) and the terrain were seen, the same happens sometimes with the horizon (black pixels), then it is confusing, but if I can help in something, here I listen

Evidence

[EpixPicture (Epix)]

Thank you so much for communicating this with us, we still hope to be seeing this technology again soon!

[VwCookie (UwCookie)]

Future Lighting will available everyone it or specific devices?
It will be cool if every devices will access to Future Lighting! I will wait also Depth Of Field for Android Devices!
Also, iOS Devices already have Future lighting or not yet?

[RRadlord]

iOS Devices had Future lighting almost since its official release.

I think the main reason for this years of delay its due to technical things. iOS uses Metal just as macOS. and Roblox is made in Objective-C. Where on Android it’s on Java(if I remember correctly) and they use Vulkan and OpenGL.

[ItzAidfoplays390]

Hello @LightBeamRays

I have just created a bug report for this issue with the steps to reproduce it. It seems to affect all games and so far I’ve got it on Doors, Cart Ride delivery service and Promidius Games Granny. It also appears to only affect Mobile devices.

Here’s the bug report link:-

Increasing the graphics quality level to 10 in Mobile sometimes causes pixelation and glitches.

Hello, I’ve noticed a weird issue where pixelation and glitches would appear on the screen when increasing the graphics quality level to 10 on Mobile. At first I thought this issue was related to the introduction of Future Lighting on Android but after testing it on games that do not use Future Lighting and after Future Lighting was rolled back from my device, I’ve noticed that this issue still occurred. This issue seems to affect all games, and so far I would’ve got it in Doors, Cart ride deli…

[ca8062co1013 (ClientSide)]

Do you think Roblox will ever get a shader editor? This can allow developers to get ahead of roblox updates and make games look exactly how they want it to.

[AborayStudios]

Is there any intention to address the issue in FIB 16 where local lights do not interact with beams, given that FIB 15 had it? This bug has hindered the implementation of advanced and innovative volumetric lighting techniques.
@LightBeamRays

Roblox VOLUMETRIC LIGHTING FIB SHOWCASE

[rob_ology]

I believe this update has glitched PC users.

Regardless of what our graphics mode is on, the quality appears automatic. It’s been going on ever since this update. I hope ROBLOX looks into this issue. I’m not the only one.

Appears Manual Graphics Mode, but Automatic

When joining a game the Settings tab says Manual Graphics Mode is set on, but it seems to be doing Automatic instead. I’m not sure if it does this every time I join a server/game, but it does it quite often. I’ve been having a problem with this for some time now and it gets annoying to go into setting every time it happens. I can notice the graphics quality changing as if it were on Automatic (which is why I am guessing it’s Automatic instead of Manual). As you can see it’s set to manual and g…

[computerph1_DEV]

@rob_ology

I believe this update has glitched PC users.

How will a mobile update affect PC Users? Very weird.

[VwCookie (UwCookie)]

Oh funny, i think it Future Lighting still have and got bugged in my game.
Also in my game don’t have cyan and purple light, also i don’t have very bright red light.
Some ppl get it bugs (i didn’t had it bug).

(Isn’t my screenshots)

(it fixed later very bright bug)

[JakeTheMCG (Jay)]

Future Ligting on Android is currently turned off as of right now. The screenshots you have attached is still using the ShadowMap

(or am I blind)

[VwCookie (UwCookie)]

in screenshot i’m found light look like from Future lighting.

I tried ShadowMap and it don’t look how in screenshot even.

I guess it buggy Future lighting even when disabled it still.

[TheoKaTheo1 (Chris)]

That’s 100% Shadow lighting not Future and it shouldn’t be buggy in studio, unless you have different graphic settings. Maybe try OpenGL to see future.

[computerph1_DEV]

@TheoKaTheo1

Maybe try OpenGL to see future.

Future is not supported for OpenGL, try Vulkan, DirectX, Metal for apple.

edit : Direct3D version must be 10 or above (feature level)

[TheoKaTheo1 (Chris)]

Future is supported for OpenGL, have tried it many times.

[computerph1_DEV]

nope, ask the staff themselves, when you select opengl and use future, it uses shadowmap, for checking if it uses shadowmap, go in interior and you wouldn’t see proper reflections or shadows from point lights, surface, spot light. if future would have supported opengl, then my pc could run with without falling back, to shadowmap.

[EpixPicture (Epix)]

I thought future lighting was disabled for android users

[computerph1_DEV]

@EpixPicture

future lighting was disabled for android users

It’s still disabled, some people still have it by editing FFlags on Android

[VwCookie (UwCookie)]

It disabled, but sometime nowhere just very bright lighting and it look like from future lighting.
It only in my game and maybe some other games that bug with lighting.