Light

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Light

The light source is the component used to illuminate the scene.

Overview

You can drop Light component from Resources window.

Properties

Name	Description
Type	The type of light source.
Brightness	The light's brightness.
Color	The color of emitted light.
Attenuation Near	The minimum distance of the source light.
Attenuation Far	The maximum distance of the source light.
Attenuation Power	The multiplier of light attenuation power.
Spotlight Inner Angle	The inner angle of the spot light.
Spotlight Outer Angle	The outer angle of the spot light.
Spotlight Falloff	The spot light fall-off.
Start Distance	The distance of lighting effect from the light position.
Mask	The light mask used by the light source.
Mask Transform	The position, rotation and scale of the light mask.
Shadows	If active, the light will cast shadows on the surfaces.
Shadow Intensity	The intensity of the shadows.
Shadow Bias	Shadow bias moves the shadow away from the light source. Adjusting it may help to fix shadow artifacts.
Shadow Normal Bias	Normal bias moves the shadow perpendicular to the shadowed surface. Adjusting it may help to fix shadow artifacts.
Shadow Softness	The softness multiplier of shadows.
Shadow Texture Size	A method to get the size of a shadow map.
Shadow Texture Size Value	The size of a shadow texture.
Shadow Near Clip Distance	The minimal distance from the light source to generate shadows.
Shadow Contact	Whether to detail the shadows by means the screen-space contact shadows technique. The contact shadows works only for deferred shading.
Shadow Contact Length	The maximal length of the contact shadows.
Shadow Static	Whether to enable static shadow optimization for this light. Only for Point and Spot lights.
Flare Image	The image of the flare.
Flare Blending	The method of drawing the image of the flare on the screen.
Flare Color	The color of the flare.
Flare Position	The position of the flare.
Flare Size	The size of the flare. It is indicated as a ratio of screen size vertically.
Spotlight Clip Planes	Returns 10 planes. Order: backward plane (0), far distance plane (1) and 8 side planes (2-9).