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Add function to disable world lightning effect on meshes

theankou

Sometimes we want to have meshes that won't look violet at night time. For example, NPC. For now most of times creators use emission trick to keep NPC look the same at day and at night, but would be good to have an option to turn on/off world lightning effect on individual meshes in SDK.

February 27, 2024

Nicolas Earnshaw

Thanks for proposing this
There is in fact a "castShadows" property on materials that in theory should be possible to set to false and do that. But unfortunately it hasn't worked for a very long time.
This needs to be fixed as a bug
https://github.com/decentraland/sdk/issues/513
There have been some attempts to fix this, but it seems like there was quite a rabbit hole in the engine side to sort out.
This should be properly addressed in the new client, and we should evaluate if we can attempt a fix in the current client too.

Scott Moore

Or faked lighting effects like sparkles and twinkles that come from animated textures. Those ought not to cast shadows. But they do and it ruins the desired magical effect.