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Apex Radiance 2.13.0

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@loinyx loinyx released this 15 Oct 00:48
v2.13.0
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Instant lamp lighting on the graphics card, and lamp light through doors, windows and arches.

New

  • Lamp lighting: a new card at the top of System > Performance. Instant (GPU), the default, has your graphics card draw the active lot's outdoor lamps with real shadows, so every floor updates at once when you switch, recolour or move a lamp; moving lamps may lower the frame rate a little. Classic is the lighter option: lamp light updates after you release a lamp, all floors together.
  • Outdoor light through openings: garden lamps light porches, arcades and rooms through their doors, windows and arches, including lamps on the story below.
  • Indoor light through openings: lit rooms shine through arches and windows onto the garden, terraces and the room next door.
  • Doors block light: closed doors and gates stop lamp light; arches, windows and glass doors let it through.
  • Walls shade lamp light near the ground: grass, paths, decks, curbs and low fences behind a wall stay dark.
  • Shadow softness: light edges past openings, wall ends and balconies soften with the lamp's size.
  • Smooth light maps: lamp light in rooms without blocks, bands or rings.

Changes

  • Buildings block lamp light on trees and objects: bushes and trees behind a wall or a house no longer take a garden lamp's light through it.
  • Smoother lamp dragging: room updates wait until the lamp stops, then follow in smaller steps.
  • Rooms at Night: options grouped under Background light and Lamp light.
  • Lighter frames: less work per frame for drawing and lighting.

Fixes

  • Disabled lamps: no longer light nearby objects.
  • Foliage by day: outdoor lamps no longer light foliage in daylight.
  • Foundations: garden lamps reach colonnades and porches on a foundation, and light under houses on foundations is no longer stopped by a false ceiling.
  • Arches: columns inside arches take the lamp light that reaches them.
  • Upper-story railings: no longer pick up light from ground lamps.

Notes

  • Instant (GPU) works on The Sims 3 Steam 1.67.2 with Night Lights on. On another game version or a graphics card that cannot run it, the card says why and lamps update as in Classic.
  • Instant (GPU) covers the active lot's outdoor lamps; other lots, world grass, roads and street lamps keep the game's light.

Install

Close the game and launcher, then replace ApexRadiance.asi in The Sims 3\Game\Bin\. Existing settings and presets remain compatible; Lamp lighting starts on Instant (GPU) and a saved choice is kept. No additional DLL is required.

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