Over 400 textures have been adjusted or repainted.Metals are now rendered much better thanks to the denoiser and BRDF improvements.The idea is, if we see that a light is usually not visible, let's not sample it so much. Added light sampling correction based on statistical per-cluster light visibility.Added an upper limit on sky luminance to avoid oversampling the sky in shadowed areas and thus reduce noise from direct lights.Replaced sphere lights that were used for wall lamps (mostly in the “train” map) with polygon lights to reduce noise.Added multiple importance sampling of specular reflections of direct lights.Improved sharpness of textured glass and similar transmissive effects by passing them around the denoiser.Fixed flickering that happened when the number of dynamic lights changes.Added storage scaling for all lighting channels to avoid color quantization.Improved stability of indirect lighting from sphere lights by limiting their contribution.Improved image stability around blinking lights by using the light intensities from the previous frame on gradient pixels.Added sample jitter to the spatial denoiser to improve the noise patterns that appear after light invalidation.Disabled the pixel jitter when temporal AA is turned off.Improved image quality and temporal stability of reflections and refractions by computing correct motion vectors for reflected surfaces and surfaces visible through flat glass.Fixed missing GI on reflections of the first person model.ĭenoising and image stability improvements:.Fixed the 'PF_centerprintf to a non-client' warnings that happened on the 'command' map when the computers are blown up, instead of informative on-screen messages.Fixed the sudden darkening of the screen:.

Fixed the issue with overexposed player setup screen:.

Fixed Stroggos atmospheric scattering (sky color) and overall sky brightness.

Fixed the stutter caused by Steam overlay by updating to the latest version of SDL2.

Added cvar `pt_show_sky` to make analyzing skybox geometry easier.

Added cvar `pt_accumulation_rendering_framenum` to control how many frames to accumulate in the reference mode.

Added “shader balls” to the shipping builds.

Added triangular lights for laser beams:.

obj files, and added portal light definitions for many maps in the base game.

Added support for loading custom sky (portal) light meshes from.Added a spatial denoiser for the specular channel.Added god rays in reflections and refractions, improved god rays filtering.Added support for security camera views on some monitors in the game.Added support for multiple reflection or refraction bounces.Added support for dynamic resolution scaling that adjusts rendering resolution to meet an FPS target.Hey, everyone! Today we're releasing v1.2.0, coming with fixes and improvements.

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