Emissive lighting fails to render on the ambient environment when configured to do so following [these instructions][1] in the documentation.
I’m trying to simulate an LED array - thus far I’ve setup my material in a way that seems to work as I would like it to look with parameters for the color and intensity:
Then I can put it into a blueprint to setup the color and intensity:
And it appears to get the fog within the blueprint preview, but without illuminating the object under it:
When displayed it does not manage to display any form of illumination, just the color of the plane (it’s a 1-sided plane so you can only see a bit of the shading from this angle):
I tried following the instructions [here][6] to illuminate the objects in the world around the plane by setting it’s Mobility to Static and the Use Emissive for Static Lighting to true then rebuilt the lighting, however the result is the same as it was previously.
The effect I’m trying to accomplish is like the lighting from [this][7] video:
What is the best way to go about this? Do I need to create a bunch of different point light sources for each lighting panel? How do I get the fog to show if I do have to fudge the lighting with point lights instead of using the object’s emissive properties to illuminate the objects around them?
Edit: I’ve tried point lights (can’t use non-static ones without it failing to build them and need stationary in order to have adjustable lighting) and that wasn’t a solution. There is no volumetric fog so that isn’t a solution. I have changed this to a bug report as it is something included in the documentation that doesn’t appear to work.
Hi CoryG -
Using Emissive for Static Lighting will only work for baked lighting and cannot be changed at runtime. You will need to have Precomputed Lighting turned on and you will need to build lighting for this function to work.
You can enable Light Propagation Volumes in your Project by adding the ‘r.LightPropagationVolume=1’ into the Engine’s Console Variables INI file found in the Engine’s Config Sub Folder. After doing that you can then check Emissive (Dynamic Area Light) to true in the Material. This will allow you to change the emissive color and have the color of the emitted light change as well.
In the Blue Array image above, the “fog” you are seeing is more probably Bloom and can be increased or decreased in the Post Process settings.
Thank You
Eric Ketchum
I’ve inserted the config line into the .ini file, checked the Emissive (Dynamic Area Light) flag on the material and applied it to a mesh, set the Use Emissive for Static Lighting parameter on the mesh within the blueprint, set it’s color/intensity parameters within a function called by the construction script and inserted the blueprint into a level - however there is no noticeable effect. This is a screenshot after the lighting has been freshly rebuilt (the thin blue line is the new mesh that should be emissive - it faces down and is the same size as the blue panel above it):
Hi Cory,
Enabling “Use Emissive For Static Lighting” won’t do very much if you’re using dynamic lighting. This is meant only for static lighting builds using lightmaps.
In order to use Emissive lighting from an object with your via a material you need to have a Directional Light in your scene that is has the flag for “Dynamic Indirect Lighting” enabled. This flag will enable LPV to be utilized.
The emissive material works by injecting the color into the light propagation volume that is generated from the directional light. The emissive material will not create light by itself.
Here is the results with a base emissive material in an LPV scene that has not enabled the flag “Emissive (Dynamic Area Light)” in its material.
Disabled:
Enabled:
It should also be noted that LPV is only supported for the Directional Light at the moment. It does not support SPOT or POINT lights. There is a feature request in for this with ticket UE-3138.
LPV is currently not in a “Production-Ready” state and some things are expected to not function properly at this stage. There are some changes that will hopefully be implemented from Lionhead Studios (studio that made LPV) for 4.8, but there are no promises on that one.
I hope this helps.
Tim
