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Distant Lights is a code plugin that creates proxy lights to dramatically extend light draw distance and optimize dynamic shadow range.

The system operates through a World Subsystem, acting as a world lighting manager accessible from anywhere in Blueprint. Distant Light components can be added to any Blueprint Actor or placed directly in the level as standard Distant light actors — following the familiar Unreal workflow — and they auto‑register in the editor without any additional clicks. For large worlds or zone‑based setups, multiple Distant Lights Managers are supported.

Built-in editor conversion tool allows you to quickly convert already placed lights to Distant Lights.

Time of Day scenarios are supported out of the box with a single Blueprint event, allowing distant and actual light components to be smoothly or instantly blended based on user‑defined time.

Compatible with Point and Spot lights.

Key Features:

- Extended Draw Distance: Significantly increase light draw distance.

- Optimized Shadows: Improves performance by reducing the draw distance of real shadow-casting lights.

- Depth Fog Support: Supports simple depth fog for atmospheric, foggy light effects.

- Instanced Animated Flares: Adds optional, instanced and animated flare meshes for enhanced visuals at distance.

- Instanced Light Meshes: Light and flare meshes are all batched.

- World Partition: Fully supports Unreal's World Partition system.

- High Performance: Written entirely in C++.

- Multiplayer Ready: Full network replication support.

- Blueprint Ready: Friendly for developers who prefer Blueprints.

- Low Storage Footprint: Tiny plugin size.