💡Light Source

is an Entity Component

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?