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  • Published 1 Feb 2021

Checkbox to turn off light falloff in EEVEE

I'd like a checkbox to turn off light falloff in EEVEE. I know it's physically correct to have falloff, but there are times when artistically, you don't want it.

For example: I'm tying to make a space scene in Blender 2.93 using EEVEE. The "sun" light is a point light at 0,0,0. I can make it arbitrarily bright, but that darned built-in falloff is killing me. If I light the inner planets, it's totally dark by the time I get to Jupiter. Yes, I can muck around with the overall power, but I'll blow out the inner planets before lighting Jupiter. I've messed around with the custom distance setting, but there is no "turn off the darned falloff" setting.

I know this is a very specific example, but it seems like a useful (and probably trivial) thing to add.

Thanks for your time.

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jpburns
1 Feb 2021

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Lauloque

I'm pretty sure the main reason of the light falloff in Eevee is technical limitation.

jpburns Author

* @-L0Lock- * I doubt adding something like a falloff is a limitation. I’m sure someone thought it was a good idea, because it’s more realistic. But sometimes you want the flexibility of turning something like that on or off, or having more direct control over the curve it uses.