Bigger FX light

[nijomo]

Basically, placeable light/spotlight with a much larger cap on distance and brightness.

Would save large map makers alot of lights and time.

You could call it, placeable S U N

[Saezi]

according to the devs, the reason the radius is capped in such a way is because apparently many small lights is more efficient than a few large lights performance-wise.

Infinite Radius Limit for Placeable Light & Placeable Spotlight

This is due to how it has to calculate each pixel and overlapping lights all in one frame. Placeable lights are dynamic lights that have to be rendered in real time. Unreal 4 uses deferred rendering, so you’re able to place down a bunch and get decent performance if they are separate and not overlapping. But if you have several large scale lights overlapping you will have to calculate each overlapping light on each pixel they are overlapping. If you can avoid overlapping the radii of the light…

though if you’re insistent on getting massive lights, the spacelight (and probably some others) have much more lenient radius limits

placeable light on the left, spacelight on the right

[CalculatorSpoon]

I don’t really understand that reasoning when the spacelight exists and that’s perfectly fine. There’s nothing stopping the devs from adding an invisible light with the same radius limit as the spacelight

[Nuclearxpotato]

People are less likely to use 400 Spacelights in a build, while they’re incredibly likely to do the same with FX lights.

[SquashiBob]

huh