Best practice for fairground lights?

I'm looking to do something like this with lights in Unity.

I'm not really sure if it's best to use actual Unity lights or small models with an emmisive material, or a combination of the 2.

On the coding part, I'm wondering if there's a sequencer script I could already use? Has anyone done anything similar or have any suggestions?

Thanks

 

Anyone?

 

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/shader-SelfIllumFamily.html

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http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-BloomAndLensFlares.html

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Optional point light here and there for overall ambience and possibly a little script to animate your self illuminated textures. This sort of job is way past what deferred lighting can handle at a decent framerate really.

 

Thanks Hippo, I thought I might run in to issues if I tried using that many real lights.

Just trying to figure out the sequencing side now.

 

Well for fairground lights you would be using an animated texture and a script to offset what 'cell' by using the texture tiling and offset.

 

Yeah that makes sense. Cheers Hippo