Hello treasure hunters, I wanted to give y\'all a quick update!

As I continue working on Bridgebourn, some of the new features occasionally trickle down into the demo. For patch 0.6.12, that includes a new lighting engine! There were 2 main reasons for this feature. One is that the previous lighting system was mostly calculated CPU side, so it wasn\'t the most performant. The other, is that I didn\'t like how I couldn\'t manually darken certain areas, like under forest canopies such as this:

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Implementing this allowed me to do some more cool things! Like tall sprite tinting in a psuedo-3d way:

[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/43955803/105380d3506ba206648ae61875d21d08f44daed4.gif\"][/img]

Not just shadows, but also colored lights:

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While I was at it, I figured a closeness effect on the camera could be really scenic, and I think I\'ll keep the result!:

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As a result, it brings other benefits too! Previously, shadows from clouds could really stack up on you, and make the area very dark - no amount of light could illuminate through these shadows. But now, this is fixed! Additionally, Bridgebourn is a CPU heavy game. This change allows the GPU to not be so idle, and instead take some of the work off of the CPU. You may experience a slight performance improvement! steamhappy

If you don\'t like this change, no worries. The old lighting system is still available in the video settings as Software (CPU).

Have fun treasure hunting!