How to make car headlights like this?

Inertia21 · January 17, 2019, 8:13am

Hello everyone,

I want to make car headlights like on the image. I tried to use spot lights but it wasn’t bright enough and the falloff was too high. When I increased the intensity of the light, nearest areas were completely white. How can I achieve that look on the image?

anonymous_user_525ae2bd · January 17, 2019, 9:18am

Hello Core,
I believe your issue can be solves by investigation IES Light Profiles. Here is the documentation about it: Using IES Light Profiles in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.2 Documentation
With this link and a bit of research on youtube (for tutorials) and google (to find an actual light profile asset) you should be able to get to the result you want hope this helps

Inertia21 · January 17, 2019, 9:52am

I quickly tried IES profiles and point lights, and it gave me close result I want. I need to work on this a bit more but that’s exactly what I want Thank you.