Is it possible to set the Sun reference from Lihting/Scene/EnvironmentLighting through code?

In my projects I keep loosing the reference to the Sun (main directional light) in the Scene tab under the Lighting panel.
I forget to check this, then make a build, and the testers keep reporting how when the sun goes down the sky stays bright (because the reference isn't there).

So I'd like to set it through code (either at runtime or through an editor script).

I noticed you can (re)assign the sun during runtime by hand. But through script I can't find anything under `RenderSettings`. I only found `RenderSettings.skybox`...

 

That's right. I forgot about that. But actually I noticed that if you turn off the main (and only) directional light in the scene, and there is also a Point Light, the skybox will use that point light sometimes*(?) (and its z direction is where the sun is in the sky).

I was seeing an odd sky with the sun just under my horizon and I thought it was due to a missing Sun; but it was a point light.

*sometimes:
-if you have just a directional light in your scene and you turn it off, the sky is black. If you then make a new point light in the scene, the sky remains black.
-if you have a directional light in the scene and also a point light, and turn the dir light off, the point light becomes the sun.

 

Hello,

I have the same issue, it is game breaking for me, since each time I load/reload a scene, my Sun reference is removed, and it is messing with day/night cycle.

Would anyone have any idea on how to set this "Sun" reference via script at runtime?


Cheers!

 

Thanks Pete. Great to see you're responding to feedback pretty quickly. This is the second time I asked for a thing around here and then unity responded adding it in the following release.

But you should also consider releasing the underlying Unity C++ code repository for free (like Unreal Engine has been doing since forever), because even though it could be considered a double edged sword, it would make a ton of community requests go away instantly, and there would be no angst waiting for the official implementations if devs can just do it themselves until then.
Not to mention the potential for devs generating advanced new tech that you'd get "for free" when you decide to hire them for their engine mods

Sorry for the tangent, but to put it simply, the only reason I keep going back and forth between Unity and Unreal is that I can't write C++ in Unity.

 

Just wondering if this has been added? This is actually making my night scene look pretty bad. I am using unistorm asset and making a multiplayer game, so each player has their own weather system also their own day & night cycles. Very disappointing I can not access this variable in the environment settings. Not game breaking for me, I just want my game to look nice.

 

Thank you for the update, greatly appreciated. I can stretch my deadline until this feature to the engine has been added. I will simply work on other features in the game until then.

Thanks again.

 

Oct 9, 2016 Unity 5.4.0 still can't set sun object via script ...