Hi, community! Out of curiousity I wanted to create an example of objects, affected by lights. Here it is: https://jsfiddle.net/prisoner849/2w0stdfp/ There are two icosahedrons and two lights in the scene. One icosahedron and one light belong to layer 0, the other icosahedron and light belong to…

The layer setting of a light only determines if it will be in the scene or not. If a light is in a scene it will illuminate all objects in that scene, It doesn’t matter which layer the object or the light is in. layer testing takes place here: mrdoob/three.js/blob/f3db836bffec7142bb24c4b1…

Light visibility/use is only filtered by the camera layer settings, no comparison is made to the layers of objects in the scene.

@aardgoose Sorry for my bad English, I didn’t get what you mean. Could you provide a more detailed answer and/or point me to the part of the code where I’m wrong, with some explanations?

Ah, thanks ) That answer from WestLangley confused me: [WestLangley] Three.js - How to prevent a light from shining on an object three.js answered by WestLangley on 04:39PM - 18 Feb 15 UTC

I guess he refers to selective lighting which is not yet supported. More information in this thread: [image] Issue: Selective lighting opened by goodsign on 2014-08-10 I'm not sure whether this is already a planned feature or maybe even a finished one, so I'll try to explai…

@aardgoose @Mugen87 Thanks, guys :slight_smile: Before I’ve started to make that fiddle, I’ve thought that a custom shader is needed for that purpose. That thought was right :slight_smile:

Is this going to be implemented? Looks like it’s from 2014?

The feature request is assigned to the RXX milestone. That means it is considered as a desirable feature and possibly implemented in upcoming releases.

yeah this a pretty big one would love to see it too.

Same here, looks pretty handy in cases like rooms to lit with different lights

There’s a PR here: [byondrnd] selective lighting by byondrnd on 11:21AM - 08 Nov 18 UTC 11 commits changed 8 files with 729 additions and 106 deletions. Unfortunately, as implemented, it seems to negatively effect performance (at lea…

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Ah, thanks )
That answer from WestLangley confused me:

Lighting per object or conditional

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