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Which is the first PC game to use dynamic lighting?

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As far as I know, none of the "3D" games of the second half of the 90s used any kind of dynamic lighting. But which is the first PC game use any dynamic lightning?
 
Probably DIablo 2 for me
 
Maybe 1999 crusaders of might and magic.
kapone32 said:
Probably DIablo 2 for me
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I think this game is technically 2d sprites I think the op is asking about 3d games.
 
Unreal game and engine, then only Quake 3 engine and game and the rest.
 
pavle said:
Unreal.
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I want to say unreal 1 had some sort of dynamic lights as well I'm just not sure if it was truly dynamic in it's first iteration.
 
As far as 3D games are concerned, Quake from 1996 uses dynamic lighting. It was most likely the first title to employ it.
 
QuietBob said:
As far as 3D games are concerned, Quake from 1996 uses dynamic lighting. It was most likely the first title to employ it.
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Wasn't that mostly lightmaps, IE static?
 
Frick said:
Wasn't that mostly lightmaps, IE static?
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Weapon projectiles and explosions, as well as molten lava blobs cast dynamic lights. The effect can be seen at the very beginning when selecting the "hard" difficulty level:

 
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