Simple Light Script causing problems

Unity Engine
1

I’m having trouble getting my light script to work. It’s very simple, all it does is find the light attached to the object and then changes the spotAngle to a predetermined size.

////////////This Script goes on the "MoveRangeIdentifier"

var TheLight;

var BoundingScale : int;


function Update () {

TheLight = transform.Find("MoveRangeLight").light;

if(TheActivePlayerSwitch == true){

TheLight.intensity = 8;
TheLight.spotAngle = BoundingScale;

}
}

Now it may be worth mentioning that the light type is a Directional with a hard-edged cookie attached to it. From what I read, the spotAngle on a directional light is supposed to adjust the size of the cookie.

the adjustment of the intensity works fine, but the spotAngle adjustment doesn’t work at all no matter what I try. I imagine that I’m calling it in the wrong way

If anyone can provide some insight, it’d be greatly appreciated!

2

This appears to be a mistake in the docs (or possibly a bug) - I have created a bug database entry for it. Note that you can change a directional light’s cookie using the Cookie Size property in the inspector but this is not exposed in the API.

3

Kay thanks Andeeee, that’s a shame though :-S. Was perfect for what I needed

4

If Anyone else knows of some trick to making this work, please let me know.

5

On the offchance that someone one day finds this post while looking for a solution to the same problem, I got around the issue by just making multiple lights of the pre-designated size that I required. For my particular needs they are in increments of 3, (one with a cookie size of 9, one with a cookie size of 12, then 15, etc.) And I just swap them out using a simple script. Hope it helps, but moreso, hope that this bug gets fixed in the future. Unity still rocks though