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Projected Light Source

The projected light source casts light from a single point forming a focused beam aimed in a specific direction. This type of light is visualized in a form of a pyramid. Due to its form, it is versatile and can be conveniently used to simulate the numerous light emitting sources: for example, car headlights, flash light, or street lamps.

Projected light sources can produce shadows of accurate perspective projection. They require only a single rendering pass and are performance-cheap if compared to the two previous light source types.

As the projected light can have different shapes, it can be used to create area lights.

Example scene that uses a projected light

See Also

  • A LightProj class to edit projected lights via UnigineScript

Adding Projected Light

To add a projected light, do the following:

  1. On the Menu bar, click Create -> Light -> Projected

  2. Place the light somewhere in the world.

Setting Projected Light Parameters

Parameters of the projected light can be adjusted on the Light and Shadow tabs of the Nodes window. They include both the common parameters and the parameters specific for the projected light source. The specific ones are described below.

Light Settings

Field of view A field of view of the projected light. This parameter defines the angle of the light clipping in range from 1 (only a very narrow segment is illuminated) to 175 degrees (the whole hemisphere is lit).
Field of view = 20
Field of view = 65
Field of view = 90
Near clipping The near clipping plane that truncates the light pyramid to necessary extend. This parameter adjusts the distance relative pyramid vertex for cutting off the top surface. The default 0.001 fits to represent a very small snip emitting the light.
Near clipping = 0
Near clipping = 0.5
Texture An arbitrary 2D texture that is projected onto the scene. All the surfaces receiving the formed light pattern are redrawn in additional rendering pass, required because of manipulations with texture matrix.
1st texture projected
2nd texture projected
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