Changelog

Version 1.2

Added

• Try To Register Blueprint function for spot and point light components. This allows you to manually register a light in cases where auto‑registration fails.

• Allow Texture Lights variable to the Distant Lights Manager, enabling you to skip texture lights and save memory on post‑process and render target creation.
• Run On Construction variable to allow manual light building in Blueprints — useful for fully dynamic scenarios with procedural generation.

• Start and end cull distances variable for mesh/sprite lights. Allows to cap max draw distance on instanced distant lights.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where new dynamic lights were not properly registered at runtime in some situations.
• Various small non‑critical fixes and cleanup.

Changed

• Added separate categories for variables in the Distant Lights Manager.
• Increased the size of the editor actor sprite in the Distant Lights Manager.
• Updated the example project to the latest version of the plugin.

Version 1.1

Added

• Specular scale for mesh and sprite lights.

Fixed

• Fixed incorrect distance calculation for spot light fade mask.
• Various small non-critical fixes.

Changed

• Shortened the distance at which mesh lights and flares collapse vertices, improved performance a bit.
• Switched from Blinn-Phong to approximate GGX specular: cheaper and more native-looking.
• Specular highlights are enabled by default.
• Default Specular value is now 1 and clamped to 1 (matching Unreal).

Version 1.02

Added

• Added a parameter to control fog intensity for all distant lights in the manager.
• Added Blueprint functions for runtime fog control.

Version 1.0

• Initial realese.