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Xenthio explains how his Source 2-style renderer works

In #developer-talk, Xenthio explained that his Source 2-style renderer is a replacement for shaderapi plus his own lightmap baker. Baking takes about 40 seconds on a map's first load; after that the map opens instantly.

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He plans bicubic lightmaps. Evgeny Akabenko showed a comparison and asked about seams, the main problem with bicubic filtering; Xenthio said he hasn't tackled that yet.