# Light Source
Light sources breathe life and light into your levels. Particularly useful for creating ambience and cool visual effects in all kinds of ways.
Adding a light source to a component will create a glow from its centre-point, which may require playing around with its position to angle it exactly where you want for the full effect.
* **Enabled** - is the light on or off?
* Can be toggled using linking to create immersive lighting; when you leave a room, the light turns off; when you interact with a light-switch, the light turns on
* **Glare** - a tiny white dot to show the exact centre of the light, much like the white part of a flame
* "Yes" will show the white dot
* "No" will hide it, but will not affect the light source in any other way. This is the recommended setting if the light source is angled more than a certain distance away from the object itself, so there's no weird floating dots hanging about
* **Cast shadow** - does the light cast a shadow, or is everything in its range given a matte glow?
* **Self shadow** - does the object itself have shadows according to its shape, or just the objects nearby?
* **Intensity** - dictates the size and brightness of the glow
* Greater intensity will have a larger range of light
* Lower intensity will have a more intimate light, perfect for candles and small details
* **Hue** - dictates the colour of the light, great for creating stylised effects like toxic waste, magic energy, or space-age machinery
* **Saturation** - dictates the intensity of the hue, from pure white to pure colour
* **Position** - dictates where the light shines in relation to the object itself
* **Flickering enabled** - does the light flicker or not?
* Flickering is ideal for firelight or creepy dystopian effects
* **Flicker intensity** - how big/noticeable are the flickers?
* **Flicker frequency** - how often does the light flicker?