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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Reitmeyer" data-source="post: 207785" data-attributes="member: 132">I've been working on the next table the last week or so, that's winding down so I'll be back on bugs soon.I just wanted to clarify something about the DX11 build.  Rendering 100-200 point lights is extremely processor intensive.  It will require a decent graphics card to handle that.  The DX9 build does not have point lights, which is why it runs well on lower end hardware.Also wanted to clarify that rendering a pinball table in general is pretty taxing.  Most 3D games get away with culling out art that's behind walls, or things you can't see.  In a Pinball table there is nothing to cull out.  You see the entire table all the the time.  You also see it pretty close up which requires a lot of higher res textures.  In other games you can put really low res textures on a wall that's far away.  In Pinball, nothing is far away.Using JackBot as an example.  The table has 140+ MB worth of textures.  3 of which are 2048x2048 and another 5 are 1024x1024.</blockquote>

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