(Note: The artifacting was not because it was more 'advanced', just moreso plain unfinished.)

Not more advanced, just different. We have pre-release screenshots from developer portfolios that show the dynamic lighting had incredibly dithered shadow artifacts and show that the lighting of scenes were changed to benefit gameplay.

ValveArchive has the images. valvearchive.com/Games/Portal...

Portal 2 development never actually used volumetric lighting, it was solely something they would use in pre-rendered trailers and videos out of SFM.

This is the exact same volumetric tech, however forced to run in the game itself. It can be a little buggy but it IS the same one.

(it also has a tendancy to expose the fact a lot of portal 2's dynamic lighting doesn't tend to have an actual real starting point, as some are just placed in the air w/o a source lmao)

I really do need to emphasise for anyone planning to use this - beware it WILL happily nom on your GPU and lower-end PCs would suffer. These volumetrics are not game-ready and designed expressely for use in SFM render output, so they're not going to look the best in motion and could cause issues.

Plugin can be downloaded here: github.com/sourceengine...

Don't forget to peruse the new updated archive! It's grown to 300gb in size now, and tons of stuff that has been found/shown since it's prior update are now all in!

valvearchive.com

(read: because citadel Is deadlock)

and a SPECIAL shoutout to the unbelievably real group of people who are like “what happened to citadel, huh? everyone stopped talking about it.” like motherfucker my friends have had ‘citadel’ installed on their computers for months and actively play it. you are genuinely stupid.

there’ll be a pixel of a rocket turret laser in the corner

this is genuinely part of it, interloper Tried to keep casual viewers in the loop by summarising things in the next episode but it gets to a point where the episodes felt like 80% “look what these people who partook in my arg did” and 20% new plot, and thats just. not how you should handle that

i actually used winmerge to check if there WAS differences in the first place, that list you see on the right was me using that so i would know what to check from each version

at the very least this is what ive accomplished thus far. i have the full development of the final main campaign level now attained: