Lights

What are the Light entities?

The light entities are dynamic real-time lights that can be used to light your scene. By using dynamic lights the level look much better than with the default ambient lighting.

For indoor areas it is essential to place proper lighting as the sun light will not lit the interiors well.

NOTE: Due to the increased calculation time for dynamic lights, you need to carefully place them in your scene.

The lights entities can be found in Rollup Bar > Entity

IndirectLight

Entity Properties

Active:	Turns the entity on/off
Radius	Specifies how far from the source the light affects the surrounding
Color
Diffuse	The diffuse color of the light can be specified here
DiffuseMultiplier	To make the light brighter this diffuse multiplier can be used
HDRDynamic	Specifies how much brighter than the default 256,256,256 white the light is. (sunlight set in the time of day window is for example 3 times brighter)
Specular	Specifies the specular color
SpecularMultiplier	multiplies the specular color brighter, use to adjust brightness
Options
AffectThisAreaOnly	Set this parameter to false to make lights other visarea
CastShadow	Makes the light cast a shadow
FakeLight	Only uses corona effects but does not dynamically light the surroundings
RenderGeometry	Specifies an emitter object
UsedInRealTime	Specifies if the light is a realtime light or not
Projector
ProjectInAllDirs	Makes the light an omni light
ProjectorFov	Specifies the Angle on which the light texture is projected
Texture	Here a black and white texture can be specified that will be projected in the direction of the y axis of the light entity
RAM
IndirectColor
IndirectMulitplier
Style
CoronaDistIntensityFactor	Specifies how bright the corona effect is in the distance.
CoronaDistFactor	Specifies how big the corona effect is in the distance
CoronaScale	Specifies how big the corona effect is
LightStyle	Specifies the frequency at which the light is blinking

Light

Entity Properties

Active:	Turns the entity on/off
Radius	Specifies how far from the source the light affects the surrounding
Color
Diffuse	The diffuse color of the light can be specified here
DiffuseMultiplier	To make the light brighter this diffuse multiplier can be used
HDRDynamic	Specifies how much brighter than the default 256,256,256 white the light is. (sunlight set in the time of day window is for example 3 times brighter)
Specular	Specifies the specular color
SpecularMultiplier	multiplies the specular color brighter, use to adjust brightness
Options
AffectThisAreaOnly	Set this parameter to false to make lights other visarea
CastShadow	Makes the light cast a shadow
FakeLight	Only uses corona effects but does not dynamically light the surroundings
RenderGeometry	Specifies an emitter object
UsedInRealTime	Specifies if the light is a realtime light or not
Projector
ProjectInAllDirs	Makes the light an omni light
ProjectorFov	Specifies the Angle on which the light texture is projected
Texture	Here a black and white texture can be specified that will be projected in the direction of the y axis of the light entity
Style
CoronaDistIntensityFactor	Specifies how bright the corona effect is in the distance.
CoronaDistFactor	Specifies how big the corona effect is in the distance
CoronaScale	Specifies how big the corona effect is
LightStyle	Specifies the frequency at which the light is blinking

SimpleIndirectLight

Entity Properties

Active:	Turns the entity on/off
Radius	Specifies how far from the source the light affects the surrounding
Color
Color	The diffuse color of the light can be specified here
ColorMultiplier	To make the light brighter this diffuse multiplier can be used
HDRDynamic	Specifies how much brighter than the default 256,256,256 white the light is. (sunlight set in the time of day window is for example 3 times brighter)
SpecularPercentage	multiplies the specular color brighter, use to adjust brightness
Options
AffectThisAreaOnly	Set this parameter to false to make lights other visarea
CastShadow	Makes the light cast a shadow
Projector
ProjectInAllDirs	Makes the light an omni light
ProjectorFov	Specifies the Angle on which the light texture is projected
Texture	Here a black and white texture can be specified that will be projected in the direction of the y axis of the light entity
RAM
AffectSurroundingVISareas	Makes the light affect nearby visareas
IndirectMultiplier	Makes the light brighter or darker (0.5 means half as bright)
LightFallOff	Specifies how much the light intensity falls off the further it is away from the source
Radius	Sets how far away from the entity the light affects the surrounding
ReflectionStrength	Specifies how much the light bounces. Used to make areas brighter that are indirect light
ShadowSize	Specifies the quality of the shadow map
Style
CoronaDistIntensityFactor	Specifies how bright the corona effect is in the distance.
CoronaDistFactor	Specifies how big the corona effect is in the distance
CoronaScale	Specifies how big the corona effect is
LightStyle	Specifies the frequency at which the light is blinking

SimpleLight

Entity Properties

Active:	Turns the entity on/off
Radius	Specifies the radius (in meters) in which the light affects the surrounding
Color
Color	The diffuse color of the light can be specified here
ColorMultiplier	To make the light brighter this diffuse multiplier can be used
HDRDynamic	Specifies how much brighter than the default 256,256,256 white the light is. (sunlight set in the time of day window is for example 3 times brighter)
SpecularPercentage	multiplies the specular color brighter, use to adjust brightness
Options
AffectThisAreaOnly	Set this parameter to false to make lights other visarea
CastShadow	Makes the light cast a shadow
Projector
ProjectInAllDirs	Makes the light an omni light
ProjectorFov	Specifies the Angle on which the light texture is projected
Texture	Here a black and white texture can be specified that will be projected in the direction of the y axis of the light entity
Style
CoronaDistIntensityFactor	Specifies how bright the corona effect is in the distance.
CoronaDistFactor	Specifies how big the corona effect is in the distance
CoronaScale	Specifies how big the corona effect is
LightStyle	Specifies the frequency at which the light is blinking

Other Light Entity Parameters

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