Fixing Character Lighting

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Subject: Fixing Character Lighting
Skill Level: Beginner
Run-Time: 5 Minutes
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: If your character is pitch black no matter what you do, this is the fix.

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Written Version

Subject: Fixing Character Lighting
Skill Level: Beginner
Author: Michael Allar
Notes: If your character is pitch black no matter what you do, this is the fix.

HTPawn

The problem here is with our Pawn class. Essentially, our skeletal mesh needs to know that we are in a light environment.

Make sure this variable is declared at the top of your Pawn class:

[csharp]/** The pawn's light environment */
var DynamicLightEnvironmentComponent LightEnvironment;[/csharp]

In defaultproperties (replace if you see you have something similar but not exact):

[csharp]DefaultProperties
{
//Some stuff

Begin Object Name=MyLightEnvironment
bSynthesizeSHLight=TRUE
bIsCharacterLightEnvironment=TRUE
End Object
Components.Add(MyLightEnvironment)
LightEnvironment=MyLightEnvironment

//More stuff

}[/csharp]

Within the same defaultproperties block, you must assign your mesh to this environment.

[csharp]Begin Object Name=WPawnSkeletalMeshComponent
//Stuff
LightEnvironment=MyLightEnvironment
//More Stuff
End Object
Mesh=WPawnSkeletalMeshComponent
Components.Add(WPawnSkeletalMeshComponent)[/csharp]

You're done!