I’m trying to follow the blueprint tutorials that are up on the youtube channel but in episode 2 the guy turns off the visibility of the light. This option is not in my details panel under the light.
Even in blueprint the options to toggle the visibility aren’t there.
Am I doing something wrong or is there a different way to do this?
I’m using version 4.4.3 by the way
I dont recall the exact steps of that tutorial but, did you create a boolean variable to toggle visibility and then make it editable?
Zak in the tutorial asks you to turn off the light in the details panel under rendering, this option isn’t there.
When you open up the level blueprint the options he searches for aren’t there. Like turn on/off the light and the toggle visibility. I don’t know if this is under a different thing or not
Oh, ok. Select the light in Components section, then in Details panel > under Rendering > Visible.
Can you give me the link to that tutorial please?
Alright…at around 3.15 he is selecting the point light that is in the scene and you are selecting the mesh. Click on the light’s icon under that ceiling lamp and you should be able to see it.
There isn’t a point light in the scene. What do I do now?
Create one! You can drag it from Modes tab on the left > Lights > Point Light. Place it under the lamp and you can continue the tutorial.
Shouldn’t it be there in the world though? If it is the starter map?
That tutorial is a couple versions old so there may be some differences between that and the one we have now.
I wouldn’t have thought that the point light would have stayed in the world though
Well i just created a new project and it looks like the light is there so you must have deleted it by mistake. But as i said, just create a new one and continue. Dont worry about how and why you could have deleted it.
I didn’t delete it. I’ve even created a new project and the point light isn’t there. Even searching through the map there isn’t one
I dont know then. But it doesnt matter! You are losing time trying to find a point light you can simply create by yourself.
This is a bit of a stale response but I thought I would chime in.
The newer starter maps have the sconce lights and hanging lights already made from blueprints and so there is no light in the scene to select even though you can see them lighting the room. I remember running into this and at first its a bit bewildering. Zaks scene in the demo is made with the light sconce and the point light as separate objects.
If you skip forward a couple of tutorials then he actually makes a whole light blueprint from scratch and you can follow that one along.