# Lighting inside walls

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954>\
**Category:** Issues and Bug Reporting\
**Tags:** light, closed, fortnite-creative, unreal-editor-for-fortnite, UEFN, lighting-problem, fortnite\
**Created:** [December 14, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954 "2025-12-14T14:28:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![prod.alyx](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@prod.alyx](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/prod.alyx)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954/1 "2025-12-14T14:28:25Z")

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### Summary

When u build a box or a building whatever , inside it it will be NO LIGHT like u turned off lightning but its on in world settings, in game it looks fine but inside uefn u cant build environments wherm theres no light basically and looks so different to the game cause in game everything is good

### Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

### What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

World Building

### Steps to Reproduce

go to uefn, build a simple box with wall asstes → look inside it will be pure darkness with 0 light

### Expected Result

no light inside buildings

### Observed Result

PLEASE FIXX IM KINDA HOMELESS WITH DAT ISSUE

### Platform(s)

all

### Island Code

no code

### Video

[![](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/f/0/0/f00d160541a5b21ef477227fe6a1e956c86ef474.jpeg "ue forum lightning issue PLEASE FIXXXXXXXXX FAST") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCKfHx1X5lE)

### Additional Notes

PLEASE FIX THATS CRAZY I CANT BUILD A MAP

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**Author:** ![Moslaipasu](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Moslaipasu](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Moslaipasu)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954/2 "2025-12-14T15:46:00Z")

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same issue

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**Author:** ![Jimbohalo10](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/jimbohalo10/32/961440_2.png) [@Jimbohalo10](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Jimbohalo10)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954/3 "2025-12-14T20:50:46Z")

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[Lighting and Lumen Quick Start Guide in Unreal Editor for Fortnite | Fortnite Documentation | Epic Developer Community](https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/fortnite/lighting-and-lumen-quick-start-guide-in-unreal-editor-for-fortnite)

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**Author:** ![prod.alyx](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@prod.alyx](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/prod.alyx)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954/5 "2025-12-14T21:33:56Z")

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they changed something last update? cause it was working fine and now its like that

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**Author:** ![Bug-Reporter](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/bug-reporter/32/997076_2.png) [@Bug-Reporter](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Bug-Reporter)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954/6 "2025-12-15T17:19:20Z")

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FORT-1032996 has been ‘Closed’. This is working as intended by design.

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**Author:** ![prod.alyx](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@prod.alyx](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/prod.alyx)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954/7 "2025-12-17T01:21:13Z")

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NOOOOOOOOO, IN GAME ITS DIFFERENT TO UEFN WITH THE SAME SETTING IN UEFN THATS 0 LIGTH INSIDE BOXES IN GAME IT IS LIGHT, IT WAS WORKING FINE BEFORE LAST UPDATE

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**Author:** ![prod.alyx](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@prod.alyx](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/prod.alyx)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954/8 "2025-12-17T01:24:51Z")

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![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/9/e/2/9e256f818b39c89bcb1428473b3f4d9e1f7a61a2.png)

 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/8/0/c/80c17e0c1bc1651ecbe74c368c149d2e5ba5386d.jpeg)

 ![image](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/e/5/8/e58163482a30a9ef7d01a7f81c0e88f0c97a6938.png)  
a lot of people reporting that the lightning is BROKEN what you mean “This is working as intended by design.”?

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**Author:** ![system](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/7/1/3/713c9d3f58553f0de89543d76a8a3a2779dc9fa4.png) [@system](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/lighting-inside-walls/2684954/9 "2026-06-12T14:29:09Z")

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