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getLightDirection

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Shared

Pair: setLightDirection

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This function returns the direction for a light element.

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  • Method:light:getDirection(...)
  • Variable: .direction

Syntax 

float,​ float,​ float getLightDirection ( light theLight )
Required Arguments
  • theLight: The light that you wish to retrieve the direction of.

Returns

  • float: x
  • float: y
  • float: z

Returns three ints corresponding to the x, y and z coordinates (respectively) of the light direction, false if invalid arguments were passed.

Code Examples

shared 
function lightDirection ()
  local light = createLight(0, 1, 0, 4)
  local lx, ly, lz = getLightDirection(light)
  outputChatBox("light direction: " .. lx .. ", " .. ly .. ", " .. lz)
end
addCommandHandler("lightDirection", lightDirection)

See Also

Light Functions
Reference