Place A Light

This page is one of a sequence of Mapping Lessons.

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• Place A Playerstart

Overview

The map will be in full brightness until you build it.

After you build it, clicking the Dynamic Light icon on one of the viewport toolbars will show you what effect your light had on its surroundings.

Instructions

With the mouse on the exact location of where you want to place the light, do one of the following:

• right-click a surface in a 3D UnrealEd Viewport and do Viewport Context Menu → Add Light Here.
• Hold down the L key and left-click in a 3D Viewport.

Placing a light

Lights can be manipulated like any other actor:

• duplicate them with CTRL-W
• move them in Camera Movement mode.

Related Topics

• Place a pickup and pickup bases in your map
• General Lighting
  

KFM: Was there any reason that this image was removed? Sorry guys, just going through the mapping lessons again and checking them all to see how effective they are when used by someone who doesn't know right from left yet.

Tarquin: I've noticed a few images missing. I suspect someone had a play with the image upload page and removed a few at random... *sigh*. But now it's gone – what would an image add to this page?

KFM: Well, when I was first starting out, it seemed that images helped me understand what I was dealing with a lot more than plain text. This one is pretty easy to grasp, though. I was just wondering as to why it was gone, because it was referenced a few times in the text above. All fixed now, though.