Light Effects

Light effects can be used in a number of ways; to draw the players attention to something important on the island or to create a specific atmosphere, such as a ghostly setting.

Light effects can be used in a number of ways; to draw the player’s attention to something important on the island or to create a specific atmosphere, such as a ghostly setting.

Light effects can be used in a number of ways; to draw the player’s attention to something important on the island or to create a specific atmosphere, such as a ghostly setting.

Before beginning this tutorial, refer to Using the Emissive Input documentation from the Unreal Engine documentation site for background knowledge for this workflow.

Follow along below for a basic tutorial on how to create a pulsing light beacon.

1. Create a new material in your project, then double-click the material thumbnail to open the Material Editor.

2. Add the following nodes:

   1. Time node
   2. Sine node
   3. Constant3Vector node
   4. ComponentMask node
   5. TextureCoordinate node
   6. ConstantBiasScale node
   7. BreakOutFloat2Components node
   8. Saturate node
   9. 2 X OneMinus node
   10. 2 X Abs node
   11. 2 X Vertex NormalWS node
   12. 5 X Multiply node

3. Change the mesh to a Cylinder in the Preview window.