How do I keep lights from going through walls in the game engine?

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Hi,

This is a VERY Annoying problem. I’m trying to build something with the game engine, but regardless of what type of light I use (Even buffer spotlight), the lights illuminate surfaces in other rooms. I try to use a spotlight, but even though it casts shadows it STILL illuminates things in other rooms.

How do I keep it from doing this?

2

play with the falloff, energy, and distance in the light buttons. You can set a short distance to prevent the bleeding between areas.

3

Hi,

Would it be possible for you to post a simplified blend file that highlights your problems so that we can look at your settings and maybe try to stop it happening.

4

if you use a lamp, there is an option called “sphere” that simply sets the lamp to have no effect beyond a radius defined by the “dist” field.

“sets light intensity to zero for objects beyond the distance value”

hope that helps :wink:

5

For this purpose you need to take help from some tutorial regarding this thing.It will solve your problem.

6

Thanks Yoda, that seems to be working fine. No magic illumination with sphere on.