RBX.lua.Lighting (Object)

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This is a Game Service; it cannot be created with Instance.new - it must be obtained using the GetService method, or as a child of game.

Derived Classes

None

Lighting (extends Instance)

• GetMinutesAfterMidnight
• GetMoonDirection
• GetMoonPhase
• GetSunDirection
• SetMinutesAfterMidnight
• Clone
• FindFirstChild
• GetChildren
• GetDebugId
• GetFullName
• IsA
• IsAncestorOf
• IsDescendantOf
• Destroy
• ClearAllChildren

• Ambient
• Brightness
• ColorShift_Bottom
• ColorShift_Top
• GeographicLatitude
• ShadowColor
• TimeOfDay
• FogColor
• FogEnd
• FogStart
• Name
• Parent
• Archivable
• ClassName
• RobloxLocked
• DataCost

• LightingChanged
• AncestryChanged
• Changed
• ChildAdded
• ChildRemoved
• DescendantAdded
• DescendantRemoving

The Lighting service controls all of the environmental variables in a map, including the colors of light, time of day, angle of celestial bodies, etc. All scripts under Lighting will not run and models will not be shown in the 3D environment, which makes this service a common place for objects to be stored.

GetMinutesAfterMidnight( )
Returns	double
Description:	The amount of minutes that have passed after midnight.
Member of:	Lighting

GetMoonDirection( )
Returns	Vector3
Description:	It returns the lookVector of the moon. If this lookVector was used in a CFrame, the BasePart would face the moon.
Member of:	Lighting

GetMoonPhase( )
Returns	float 0.75
Description:	Returns 0.75.
Member of:	Lighting

GetSunDirection( )
Returns	Vector3 sun direction
Description:	Returns a lookVector value of a CFrame directed at at the current position of the sun.
Member of:	Lighting

SetMinutesAfterMidnight( number minutes )
Returns	nil
Description:	Sets the amount of minutes that have passed after midnight.
Member of:	Lighting

Clone( )
Returns	Instance
Description:	Returns a clone of the object and its children, unless its Archivable property is false. The clone will have the same properties as the original object and the same descendants (except those with an Archivable property set to false). The clone's Parent will be nil.
Member of:	Instance

FindFirstChild( string name, bool recursive = false )
Returns	Instance
Description:	Returns the first child found with a name of name. Returns nil if no such child exists. If the optional recursive argument is true, will recursively descend the hierarchy while searching rather than only searching the immediate object.
Member of:	Instance

GetChildren( )
Returns	table
Description:	Returns a read-only table of the object's children.
Member of:	Instance

GetDebugId( int scopeLength )
Returns	string
Description:	Returns a coded string of the object's DebugId used internally by Roblox.
Member of:	Instance

GetFullName( )
Returns	String path to object
Description:	Returns a string with a dot (.) character separating a path of object hierarchy excluding "game".
Member of:	Instance

IsA( string className )
Returns	bool
Description:	Returns true if the Instance is that class or a subclass.
Member of:	Instance

IsAncestorOf( Instance descendant )
Returns	boolean is ancestor
Description:	Returns true if the object is an ancestor of descendant.
Member of:	Instance

IsDescendantOf( Instance ancestor )
Returns	bool
Description:	Returns true if the object is an descendant of ancestor.
Member of:	Instance

Destroy( )
Returns	nil
Description:	Sets the Parent property to nil, locks the Parent property, disconnects all connections and calls Destroy() on all children.
Member of:	Instance

ClearAllChildren( )
Returns	nil
Description:	Removes all descendants of the Instance, but leaves the Instance itself.
Member of:	Instance

Ambient
Type	Color3
Description	Changes the hue of the global lighting in the Workspace.
Member of	Lighting

Brightness
Property	Number
Description	The greater the number, the greater the illumination of the place
Member of	Lighting

ColorShift_Bottom
Property	Color3 bottom color
Description	The hue in which is represented when light reflects off the bottom surface of a rendered object.
Member of	Lighting

ColorShift_Top
Property	Color3 top color
Description	The hue in which is represented when light reflects off the top surface of a rendered object.
Member of	Lighting

GeographicLatitude
Property	Number Latitude
Description	The latitude which affects the result of the TimeOfDay property.
Member of	Lighting

ShadowColor
Property	Color3 ShadowColor
Description	The colour of shadows. (Can be switched on through Roblox studio settings)
Member of	Lighting

TimeOfDay
Property	String time of day
Description	Sky phase according to time in string, where 1 AM is "01:00:00", and 1 PM is "13:00:00".
Member of	Lighting

FogColor
Property	Color3 FogColor
Description	A Color3 value that changes the hue of distance fog.
Member of	Lighting

FogEnd
Property	Int FogEnd
Description	The distance at which fog completely blocks your vision. This distance is relative to the camera position. Units are in studs
Member of	Lighting

FogStart
Property	Int FogStart
Description	The distance at which the fog gradient begins. This distance is relative to the camera position. Units are in studs.
Member of	Lighting

Name
Type	string
Description	The name of the object, which is often used to identify it in the context of its parent. Note that names are not unique identifiers; multiple children of an object may share the same name. In a script where you want to access an object using a name, for example, game.Workspace["Brick"], the first object found with that name is that object. This "first object" can be found in the Explorer menu.Names are great for showing a very brief title or summary of an object.
Member of	Instance

Parent
Type	Instance
Description	The hierarchical parent of the object. When no scripts hold references to an object, it will still be maintained as long as it's parent is set to an object which does have references to it, either by other objects or scripts. The toplevel DataModel object (the one referred to as the "game" by scripts) has no parent, but always has a reference held to it by the game engine, and exists for the duration of a session.
Member of	Instance

Archivable
Type	bool
Description	Sets whether or not the object is saved when publishing or saving to file. Also sets whether or not the object is clonable.
Member of	Instance

ClassName
Type	string
Description	A unique string per type of Instance. Should only be used as a unique identifier, as it does not reveal any information about nature of the type hierarchy the type is in. For this use, see IsA.
Member of	Instance

RobloxLocked
Type	bool
Description	If true, the object and its descendants cannot be indexed or edited by a Script or LocalScript and will throw an error if it is attempted.
Member of	Instance

DataCost
Type	int
Description	How much saving this instance with SaveInstance will add to DataComplexity
Member of	Instance

LightingChanged ( Bool skyboxChanged )
Description	Fires when a property of Lighting is changed, or a Skybox is added or removed.
Member of:	Lighting

AncestryChanged ( Instance child, Instance parent )
Description	Fired when an ancestor of the Instance the event which is a member of child has its parent changed to parent.
Member of:	Instance

Changed ( Property property )
Description	Fired whenever a property of the object changes.
Member of:	Instance

ChildAdded ( Instance child )
Description	Fired after a child is added.
Member of:	Instance

ChildRemoved ( Instance child )
Description	Fired when a child is removed from the object.
Member of:	Instance

DescendantAdded ( Instance descendant )
Description	Fired when a descendant is added to the object.
Member of:	Instance

DescendantRemoving ( Instance descendant )
Description	Fired when a descendant is being removed.
Member of:	Instance