Is it possible to have more than four active point lights in a scene? I know there’s a limit of 4 lights per standard material, but I don’t want to light the same meshes with many lights, I want each light to affect only a few meshes nearby. Think of a bunch of street lights across a town. Each has …

This is just an idea (which I haven’t tried) but could you split your project into static and dynamic “zones” so when the user/camera is within a particular zone the lights and shadows are dynamic, but when the user/camera is outside a zone, the shadow maps are frozen? Combined with other environmen…

There are a number of threads in the forum about this, see for eg: [image] How to add more than 4 lights in a scene Questions I met this problem when using babylon, and doc said “The default number of lights allowed is four but this can be increased”. Now I have a scene w…

[image] alekop: Is it possible to have more than four active point lights in a scene? Yes, you can overide the limit and have more lights. However, this will heavily impact performance. [image] alekop: Think of a bunch of street lights across a town. This looks to me like something to…

More than 4 point lights per scene

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Evgeni_Popov November 30, 2022, 11:07am 3

There are a number of threads in the forum about this, see for eg:

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More than 4 point lights per scene

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