Hi - I have a BP containing 12 x componant boxes, each with a moveable spotlight componants inside. All lights have ‘cast shadows’ turned off and their attenuation settings so there is plenty of space between them and no overlapping.
However, as soon as I turn any one of the spotlights on I get the warning ‘Too many overlapping, shadowed moveable lights, shadow casting disabled’ Which does not go away even if i turn the light off again. Any ideas why this may be happening?
And an additional question - Is there a way to force stationary lights to not have any affect on the lighting build without setting them to moveable? I have a part of my level that I want to keep dark but have pulsating lights in there so they need to be stationary - whenever I do the lighting build with these stationary lights seem to blast the light build with their influence, way brighter than the lights are in the editor viewport.
Thanks but I already tried this and have just now been through every light in every Blueprint with a warning and double checked again - all are unticked for ‘cast shadows’ and Indirect Lighting Intensity set to 0 - I still get all the warnings.
I can only assume this may be a bug - would love to know a workaround or a way of supressing the red on-screen warnings as they take up a big chunk of editor screen space.
You asked how you could make a stationary light not affect light bakes. That’s how. Stationary lights have the same shadowing limitations as moveable lights so I am not surprised that it didn’t get rid of the warnings.
Frankly it seems like a bug, but I cannot reproduce this on 4.25.1 which makes me think maybe your problem lies elsewhere. I put 15x moveable spotlights overlapping eachother in a blueprint actor, then I ran a slow loop that turns them on one by one. Works as expected, no warnings or errors.
@Arkiras Apologies, For some reason I thought you were answering my other question, had some late night (early morning) madness there. Yes I think it must be a bug and it is annoying the ■■■■ out of me. Outside of deleting all my BPs and starting again which is a ton of work I don’t know what to do. The warning is not a problem as I have shadows turned off anyway, I can live with that. It is just the fact it fills my editor screen with red text. This is in 4.25 also. Thanks for the reply - the light bakes answer was just what I needed.
Solved - Just in case anyone else gets this same problem. I had to delete all the lights out of my parent Blueprint. Compile the BP. Close the Editor, reload the game and recreate/reconnect all the lights as fresh new versions so they all updated in the Child blueprints. If I left even one of the original problem lights in the blueprint while replacing/restarting I still got the error across all Child BP’s. Painful, but the only way I could find to fix it. There seems to be a bit of a bug there.
Is it for mobile or not? There’s a limit to overlapping local lights for mobile. It can be changed by console or in Project Settings > Rendering. I was thinking it was a bug concerning that.
Sometimes, the editor retains data pieces / registry entries and it affects things until starting over in a new project or some other way.
