Hey guys, I added a hook into my base sprite actor in order to update the lighting channels during runtime. My goal is to be able to have a sprite be lit or unlit by a spotlight depending on the location of the light. Because it’s all in 2d, using the lighting channels seemed like the perfect solution. After figuring out that you can’t update the channel in blueprints during runtime I wrote a simple function to do it in cpp. Although the value is in fact properly updated, it seems to have no effect on the light actually shining on the object. I haven’t been able to do any testing where I destroy and rebuild the light or object with new parameters but I did try invalidating the lighting cache and that didn’t seem to work. Any help or a point in the right direction would be very appreciated. Thanks!
This is several years later, but, for posterity, the solution is that you have to call MarkRenderStateDirty() on the component after you have updated its lighting channels in order for the updated lighting channels to have any effect.
Thanks to this thread for the solution.