it's true we could, and lightmapping isn't all that hard to do, but it is very time consuming, and because we have 31 mechs (each using the med material and effect features on multiple skins, at least 4 per mech) and a decent amount of overall models, lightmapping would throw us behind too much, so maybe in the graphics update, we don't really want to pull a DNF ( ) and add a new feature each time we find something new, which is why the bloom which was added may be the last graphics tweak until the game is released