DX lights do have a 'range' parameter. It acts like a cutoff point and beyond this the light has no effect at all, i.e no lighting calculations are carried out by the gpu. Unfortunately Blitz does not expose this parameter to us so we have 'infinite' lights.
How to improve DirectX lights dramatically
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