SunLight(Light)
base classes — bpy_struct, ID, Light
- class bpy.types.SunLight(Light)
 Constant direction parallel ray Light
- angle
 Angular diameter of the Sun as seen from the Earth
- Type
 float in [0, 3.14159], default 0.00918043
- contact_shadow_bias
 Bias to avoid self shadowing
- Type
 float in [0.001, 9999], default 0.03
- contact_shadow_distance
 World space distance in which to search for screen space occluder
- Type
 float in [0, 9999], default 0.2
- contact_shadow_thickness
 Pixel thickness used to detect occlusion
- Type
 float in [0, 9999], default 0.2
- energy
 Sunlight strength in watts per meter squared (W/m^2)
- Type
 float in [-inf, inf], default 10.0
- shadow_buffer_bias
 Bias for reducing self shadowing
- Type
 float in [0, inf], default 1.0
- shadow_buffer_clip_start
 Shadow map clip start, below which objects will not generate shadows
- Type
 float in [1e-06, inf], default 0.05
- shadow_buffer_samples
 Number of shadow buffer samples
- Type
 int in [1, 16], default 3
- shadow_buffer_size
 Resolution of the shadow buffer, higher values give crisper shadows but use more memory
- Type
 int in [128, 10240], default 512
- shadow_cascade_count
 Number of texture used by the cascaded shadow map
- Type
 int in [1, 4], default 4
- shadow_cascade_exponent
 Higher value increase resolution towards the viewpoint
- Type
 float in [0, 1], default 0.8
- shadow_cascade_fade
 How smooth is the transition between each cascade
- Type
 float in [0, 1], default 0.1
- shadow_cascade_max_distance
 End distance of the cascaded shadow map (only in perspective view)
- Type
 float in [0, inf], default 200.0
- shadow_color
 Color of shadows cast by the light
- Type
 float array of 3 items in [0, inf], default (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
- shadow_soft_size
 Light size for ray shadow sampling (Raytraced shadows)
- Type
 float in [0, inf], default 0.25
- use_contact_shadow
 Use screen space raytracing to have correct shadowing near occluder, or for small features that does not appear in shadow maps
- Type
 boolean, default False
- use_shadow
 - Type
 boolean, default True
- use_soft_shadows
 Use soft shadows for this light
- Type
 boolean, default True
- classmethod bl_rna_get_subclass(id, default=None)
 - Parameters
 id (string) – The RNA type identifier.
- Returns
 The RNA type or default when not found.
- Return type
 bpy.types.Structsubclass
- classmethod bl_rna_get_subclass_py(id, default=None)
 - Parameters
 id (string) – The RNA type identifier.
- Returns
 The class or default when not found.
- Return type
 type
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