# Max Lights in Inspector

**URL:** <https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/max-lights-in-inspector/3297>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [May 17, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/max-lights-in-inspector/3297 "2019-05-17T12:47:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![oglu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/oglu/32/1677_2.png) [@oglu](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/oglu)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/max-lights-in-inspector/3297/1 "2019-05-17T12:47:21Z")

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Could we set the max Lights setting to 10 or 12.  
Four lights are a bit limmiting.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Deltakosh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/deltakosh/32/26635_2.png) [@Deltakosh](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Deltakosh)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/max-lights-in-inspector/3297/2 "2019-05-17T17:14:50Z")

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It is intentional. Setting it to bigger value will slow everything down.

If you really want to use it, you can just set:

```auto
material.maxSimultaneousLights = 12;

```

[https://doc.babylonjs.com/babylon101/lights#limitations](https://doc.babylonjs.com/babylon101/lights#limitations)