Published: Feb 09 2024 by mana vortex Last documented edit: Feb 09 2024 by mana vortex
This page gives you an overview about lights at a glance.
To learn about shadows in the world, check Environment: Shadows
To learn about shadows for equipment items, check Meshes, Shadows, and Shadow Meshes
For a guide how to add lights to AMM props, check AMM: Light Components
For a quick overview on lights and their properties, check Cheat Sheet: Lights (currently WIP)
If you want to learn more about blocking light, check Occluders and light blocking
IDK either! But maybe someone edits the wiki :/
Cyberpunk uses three types of lights:
The light is a sphere and is equally bright in every direction
The light is a cone. The sharpness is defined by its inner and outer angle.
The light is a square (like a light panel).
Their are two options for light attenuation listed as LA_InverseSquare and LA_Linear light attenuation is the falloff of luminance away from the point of origin as the photons spread out
Inverse square root is the default option and the physically accurate one, This should generally be set by default unless absolutely necessary. LA_InverseSquare models the falloff of luminance according to the inverse square root law.
Linear simply directly drops light luminance according to the set radius of the light. this setting can make a light more obvious or bright overall however does so at the cost off functioning unnatural and potently appearing too bright at distance.
