>>712712276Also since the last thread got archived already, the triple nigel bundle of sticks from that thread should look up "geometry instancing", a decades-old technique which means you can render the same object a thousand times at much lower cost than a thousand discrete objects. It's how games like Hitman or Musou work. This is why it's not bad practice to, in his example, build a tunnel out of reused rock geometry of which you might only be seeing small chunks from various angles. Yes it looks wasteful in noclip, but it's actually not.
>>712712335So turn off lumen then nigel, developers aren't forced to use it, it's literally a tick box. Literal fucking "but I did eat this morning"-brained ignorant gorilla.