Light enabled property copied on Instantiate

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1

I’m seeing a weird behavior when trying to clone an object. Basically I have a simple cube with a light attached to it. The light is disabled by default. What I wanted to do was, on collision for the box, enable the light and create a new cube to repeat the process. I built the cube and light into a prefab and attached my script which looks like this:

var lightBox : Transform;
private var duped = false; 
function OnCollisionEnter(collision : Collision) {
     if (!duped) {
        var newInstance = Instantiate(lightBox, Vector3 (0, 10, 0), Quaternion.identity);
        newInstance.light.color = Color(Random.Range(0.0, 1.0), Random.Range(0.0, 1.0), Random.Range(0.0, 1.0), 1);
        duped = true;
    }
    light.enabled = true;
}

What I’ve found is that if I enable my light before Instantiating the new box (i.e. moving the ‘light.enabled = true’ to be the first line in the method), the new box’s light is enabled immediately. If I enable the light afterwards as shown in the code above, the new box’s light is disabled until it collides (the intended behavior).

Is this a bug or is there a reason why enabling the light on one object would cause the light on the next one to be enabled immediately?

2

hmm not sure but if you just wanted to make sure that the light if off on every instances you could see if this would work

newInstance.light.enabled = false;