New Video Settings and Balancing! (Update 0.6.1.0) — Don't Sink Steam update #123772

Supporting the potato PC Many people don't have insane $1,000+ gaming PCs and often they are forgotten. We want to make sure Don't Sink can run on any potato, even old ones. This update brings two new video settings which we will discuss below! Lighting LUTs LUT stands for Look Up Table and all it really does is take the color of a pixel and convert it to another color using the LUT as a guide. This allows us to render vibrant scenes using nothing besides a texture and a single shader. It is extremley performant but there are two weaknesses. A single LUT (for example our morning colors) require a 4096x4096 (48mb) image to be kept in memory. When it is drawn the GPU takes a bit longer (when compared to other sprites in the game) to draw the image due to its size. For a slow GPU a single LUT can be fairly expensive to handle. When transitioning between various times of day, two LUTs are dr...