Lights Manager

Manages all vehicle lights including headlights, brake lights, turn signals, and auxiliary lighting.

Light Types

Light Type	Description
Low Beam Lights	Primary headlights for normal night driving. Automatically turns on tail lights when enabled
High Beam Lights	Full beam headlights for maximum illumination. Requires low beam to be on first. Automatically enables both low beam and tail lights
Tail Lights	Rear lights that illuminate when any beam lights are on. Always red, lower intensity than brake lights
Brake Lights	Activate when braking. Typically share the same physical light housing as tail lights but with higher intensity
Reverse Lights	Automatically turn on when in reverse gear. Typically white
Left/Right Blinkers	Turn signals that flash at 2Hz. Mutually exclusive (activating one turns off the other)
Extra Lights	For special purposes such as fog lights, beacons, or light bars. Toggled independently via input

Light Behavior

Beam Lights Hierarchy

• Low beam lights automatically enable tail lights
• High beam lights require low beam to be on (high beam enables both)
• Turning off low beam also turns off high beam and tail lights

Blinkers and Hazards

• Blinkers flash at 2Hz (twice per second)
• Left and right blinkers are mutually exclusive
• Hazard lights override individual blinkers and flash both sides synchronously
• Use LeftBlinkerState and RightBlinkerState properties to get current on/off state for each frame

VehicleLight

Each light type (brakeLights, lowBeamLights, etc.) is a VehicleLight object containing a list of LightSource components. This allows a single light to be represented by multiple components - for example, a headlight can have both a Spot Light (for scene illumination) and an emissive mesh (for lens appearance).

All sources within a VehicleLight turn on/off together as a single unit.

Multiplayer Support

Use GetIntState() and SetStateFromInt() for network synchronization. All light states are serialized into a single integer (8 bits for 8 light types), allowing efficient transmission of the entire lighting state.

Methods

• TurnOffAllLights() - Turns off all lights and emission on all meshes