OpenGL Lighting not the same as in video

[UnknownKid]

So I just watch this video on the update of Openrct2 OpenGL Lighting. This is the video 

So I decided to turn the OpenGL Lighting option and it is not even the same as shown. The video shows RCT2 looking like a 3D game yet it doesn't change anything when I change the Drawing Engine to OpenGL. Why is this happening?

 

It looks nothing as shown in the video

 

[jensj12]

You've only changed the drawing engine. To get lights and shadows, you need to enable day/night cycling and light effects in the second tab as well. Still those aren't the same (and require hardware rendering rather than OpenGL). The footage shown in the video never made it into the official codebase.

[UnknownKid]

Oh I see. May I know how can I do it with hardware rendering

[jensj12]

Go to options. In the first tab, select software (hardware display) as render method, and in the second tab enable day/night cycle, lighting effects and lighting effects for rides (in that order).

[X7123M3-256]

On 09/09/2022 at 19:13, UnknownKid said:

 I decided to turn the OpenGL Lighting option and it is not even the same as shown. The video shows RCT2 looking like a 3D game yet it doesn't change anything when I change the Drawing Engine to OpenGL. Why is this happening?

 

Because it's not the same - the OpenGL lighting shown in that video was a prototype that was never made it into the game. There are some lighting effects included in the game which you can enable in the options, but they work quite differently and won't look as nice. I don't know if source code for the prototype lighting was ever made available, but if it is, it'd take quite a lot of work to update it to work with the current version of OpenRCT2, a lot has changed since 2017.

Changing the drawing engine to OpenGL doesn't itself change how the game looks, it just means that OpenRCT2 will use OpenGL to accelerate the drawing which will usually improve performance. However, if you want to use the lighting effects you need to have your drawing engine set to "Software (hardware display)" - they don't work in OpenGL mode.

[733737]

one workaround is to install reshade from reshade.me which can add some flair to openrct2 in opengl mode, HOWEVER, every time the game updates (which can be 3 or 4 times a day on develop) you have to reinstall reshade, which is why I don't use it (I only play on develop)

 

Edited September 27, 2022 by 733737

[grantoid]

On 27/09/2022 at 00:27, 733737 said:

one workaround is to install reshade from reshade.me which can add some flair to openrct2 in opengl mode

Hey, I've been looking everywhere online and this is literally the only place I've seen it mentioned getting reshade to work on openrct2. I installed reshade in opengl mode and launch openrct2 in opengl but I can't get the overlay to show up. Is there anything special I need to do?

[RobyGala]

hi, probably today is your lucky day, years ago I asked insider to pass me the version passed as a test to youtubers, today I remembered and saw that many people ask for it, if you want I can pass you the game on google drive

[Soup]

On 19/05/2023 at 18:37, RobyGala said:

hi, probably today is your lucky day, years ago I asked insider to pass me the version passed as a test to youtubers, today I remembered and saw that many people ask for it, if you want I can pass you the game on google drive

If you happen to still have this, I would like it.

[RobyGala]

hi man! sorry if i reply only now, how can i share it to u? i don’t know much this forum