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DirectionalLight is not actually a directional light
See original GitHub issueDoes is matter that the DirectionalLight is not actually a directional light?
Here’s a screenshot of a directional light lighting one face of a cube
Here’s the fiddle that’s from: https://jsfiddle.net/greggman/ae2yc7uj/
It’s clearly not a directional light. If it was a directional light it would be a solid color but you can clearly see it’s not a solid color. In order to produce the affect seen in the screenshot a position is needed. A direction light (in computer graphic terms) has no position so it’s impossible to render different lighting across a flat surface.
Is this a bug? Should the docs change to say a direction light is not actually a directional light?
Three.js version
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- Created 5 years ago
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@WestLangley’s explanation works for me.