Just looking for quick clarification, omnilight disable shadow in gdscript not possible?

justinbarrett

Looking into the documentation I don't see any method to enable or disable shadows for omni lights, is this correct?

Megalomaniak

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_light.html

not

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_directionallight.html#class-directionallight https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_omnilight.html#class-omnilight or https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_spotlight.html#class-spotlight

Got to keep that inheritance chain in mind when looking these things up in the docs. ;)

justinbarrett

I have removed the code, but I did try to use "set_shadow(false)" and it gave me an error...no method in class..stuff. Therefore I assumed it was not inherited by the omni. I'm simply doing some optimization testing by incrementing through the lights and disabling shadows outside the camera distance thresh-hold. so is light.set_shadow(bool) the wrong call or should I use light.shadow_enabled = false..I assumed the setter was correct.

Megalomaniak

Perhaps you should check with has_shadow() first?

cybereality

@justinbarrett said: I have removed the code, but I did try to use "set_shadow(false)" and it gave me an error...no method in class..stuff. Therefore I assumed it was not inherited by the omni.

For most OOP stuff, and I believe in Godot, the inherited classes have all the functionality of every base class, plus more. Though I do think it is technically possible in C++ to redefine or remove base functionality, I don't believe Godot does that.

justinbarrett

@Megalomaniak said: Perhaps you should check with has_shadow() first?

true, but I know shadows are enabled. This is not a big deal. was just looking for a quick "yes, no" response. I can tinker with it, but I just thought I would ask in passing..I'm already off to other things. This is just a shadow of a thought in the back of my mind.

justinbarrett

@cybereality said:

@justinbarrett said: I have removed the code, but I did try to use "set_shadow(false)" and it gave me an error...no method in class..stuff. Therefore I assumed it was not inherited by the omni.

For most OOP stuff, and I believe in Godot, the inherited classes have all the functionality of every base class, plus more. Though I do think it is technically possible in C++ to redefine or remove base functionality, I don't believe Godot does that.

That was my thought process as well. Like I said...I've moved on..I'll circle around to this later. Still fighting with some pruning of nodes in my pathfinding...always a tricky matter for me using breadth first..then pruning...meh. I'll be around :)