mokargas/aframe-area-light-component

aframe-area-light-component

Add Area Lights to an A-Frame entity. Uses THREE.RectAreaLight at the core.

WARNING: Area Lights are highly experimental and performance intensive at the moment. Please use sparingly

Example of Area Light

Examples

API

Property	Description	Default Value
intensity	intensity of the light output	1.0
color	color of the light output (and helper if enabled)	1.0
width	width of the light output	2.0
height	height of the light output	2.0
showHelper	Show the RectAreaLightHelper. Useful for positioning lights in the Inspector, or as a quick panel light (Note that the helper is single sided)	true
helperColor	Given showHelper is enabled, set a custom color for it here	undefined

Installation

Browser

Install and use by directly including the browser files:

<head>
  <title>My A-Frame Scene</title>
  <script src="https://aframe.io/releases/0.6.1/aframe.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/aframe-area-light-component/dist/aframe-area-light-component.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <a-scene>
    <a-entity area-light="intensity:4; width:1; height:1; color: #FFFFFF;"></a-entity>
  </a-scene>
</body>

npm

Install via npm:

npm install aframe-area-light-component

Then require and use.

require('aframe');
require('aframe-area-light-component');

Recommended enhancements

Combine with A-Frame Effects post-processing effects like Bloom and showHelper:true for a neat glow effect

TODO

Add tests :)
Performance fixes
Enable a simple plane rather than a helper (?)

mokargas / aframe-area-light-component

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