One of the most exciting aspects of the new lighting engine in FFXIV is that it breathed new life into some of the older assets in FFXIV, even without the developers going back and updating those areas to have higher resolution textures or adding additional light sources outright. Video game lighting is a whole specialized field in graphics (trust me, I’ve read enough rants from my old friend Yonder who is now a developer with Sony over something something “voxel cone ray tracing” that is a mixture of English, Japanese, and calculus.)
The challenge this week was to go into an ARR dungeon and try to find one of these spots that we can see with “a fresh set of eyes” – that is, the new graphics engine – and look at them in a way we haven’t been able to before. This round is a background scenery challenge. Here are the entries from our photographers this week!
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