Light App 🚨

The Light App lets the user create and customize real-time lights in their current environment. These lights are grabbable objects that can be moved around in the world. They are local only and are not visible to other users.

Important

Light app is subject to change!

📷 UI Preview

📖 Navigating UI

• Create Lights

  • Spotlight : Spawns a spotlight object. Spotlight emits light within a confined angle, producing a focused, cone-shaped beam. Ideal for highlighting specific areas, drawing attention to certain objects, or creating stage-like lighting in a scene.
  • Point Light : Spawns a point light object. Unlike spotlights, point lights emits light in all directions equally.

• Modify Light Properties

  • Light Status : Displays the current status of the light and provides the option to toggle it off or on.
  • Intensity : Controls how bright the light is.
  • Spot Angle (Spotlight Only) (Spotlight Only): Adjusts how wide the light spreads from a spotlight.
  • Range : Controls how far the light reaches from its source.
  • Color : Sets a color to the light.
  • Bound To Player : Maintains a fixed distance and rotation relative to the avatar. Toggling the button again disables this feature, making it stationary.
  • Rotate Vertically (Spotlight Only) : Rotates light source along the local right-axis.
  • Rotate Horizontally (Spotlight Only) : Rotates light source along the local up-axis.
  • Move Vertically : Moves the light along the world up-axis.

• Other Toggles

  • Enable all lights : Turn on/off all light sources in the world.
  • Enable all meshes : Turn on/off all light source object meshes in the world.
  • Delete : Delete selected light source.

🛠️ Creating Lights

Step 1: Select the desired light source to create

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Step 2: Selecting light source

• Orange box around icon indicates that is selected

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Step 3: Editing properties

• White inner icon indicates that particular light is OFF