Project Metal Question

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Hi IFC. I have a question.
So I’ve been reading Project Metal and I don’t really understand this paragraph.

"Some features we’d like to implement but have been either impossible or too performance-inhibitive are things like:

  • Dynamic lighting: the ability to have aircraft lights (airport lights, and more) illuminate the environment dynamically
  • Improved aircraft shading that takes into account light coming from the environment around it
  • Realtime shadows
  • Volumetric effects like dense 3d clouds and better fog
  • Texture streaming improvements to allow more visible aircraft in multiplayer"

Does this mean that those features won’t be added to the game?

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No, project metal is to change some of the back coding to eventually allow these types of things to be entered into the game.

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It is not meaning that these functions will not be implemented but there is much more to it then just coding and creating the features. They need to be optimized for a use on many different types of OS and devices. Therefore, slowly but gradually with every new update we will continue to see good progress from the DEV team.

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It’s more the limitations of the current state/backing of the game that don’t allow for these features to be implemented. Project metal is basically all the behind the scenes work that will eventually be able to see these features be added to the game.

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Like others have said, currently the game doesn’t allow these features such as 3D clouds, dynamic lighting, etc.

But with every update we see, behind it is work and fresh coding allowing the devs to create such features and the game can optimize them all.

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“Metal and Vulkan are much more low-level than OpenGL ES”

So “less processing overhead.”

No, it means before such features couldn’t be added because of the extra overhead.

You have more power over your plumbing if you do the work yourself rather than hire a plumber to do the work (the plumber being the overhead).

Now you can tailor your plumbing exactly to your needs, but it means you have more work to do yourself. That’s why it takes time.

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Thanks, everyone for clarifying that.

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