UnrealEd3, sunlight shining in zones

[OrionCo30]

I have noticed that the sunlight actor will only illuminate surfaces that are in the same zone as the sunlight itself. Putting an identical sunlight in each zones you want to illuminate can be a solution, but it can also cause all sorts of lighting problems if the maps architecture has any degree of complexity. Is there a way to have the sunlight ignore the zoning and shine everywhere it should?

 

[Bot_40]

no, you gotta have one in each zone

 

[X22887]

or put a sunlight actor in the skybox

 

[OrionCo30]

Well well, I never thought about that. And it works too. Thank you very much

 

[X22887]

I found out about it by accident... caffinene twitches made me place a sunlight actor in a skybox... Suddenly my level was illuminated, and the rest is history

 

[The_Head]

I've always

/delete me.... (blames useless school computer running IE)

 

[The_Head]

I've always used sunlights in skyboxes, neverhad a reason to put them inside of the map. Occasionally it can go through some bsp and leave areas of light where it shouldn't. Easy solution to this though, make sure where you want the sunlight to come in (using false backgrounds) to make sure the whole brush is one. USed to get some really annoying problems before i found that one out