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Coronas stop rendering out of player's FOV #337

Open Shivaxi opened 11 months ago

Shivaxi commented 11 months ago

I'm not sure if this is even intentional or not, making the report to get more info about it, as we were discussing it in Discord with a few players. But essentially, in 227i and up, Coronas will stop rendering once they go outside the players FOV:

https://github.com/OldUnreal/Unreal-testing/assets/10459358/4d7fef20-874b-46c4-8ab1-cee8205806fb

This doesn't happen in 226 and UT99, instead Coronas render as long as they themselves have line of sight to the player:

https://github.com/OldUnreal/Unreal-testing/assets/10459358/87838a63-dd13-4401-9905-e2a06cdd793d

Which to me personally looks and feels a bit better and makes more sense. Having coronas constantly fade in while you're looking around in a room in 227 is a bit weird imo. But no idea if this was intentional (performance? coronas aren't hard to render in this day and age I don't think) or a side effect with making actors block coronas or what.

Smirftsch commented 11 months ago

To restore original behavior I added an additional flag: var(Lighting) bool bFOVFadingCorona; // In use with bCorona. Corona is fading out when out of FOV.

This way the mappers can decide themselves if they want to use this new feature or not.