Level Design & Lighting Staging

Level designers and lighting artists frequently need to test environmental scale, shadow angles, and collider volumes with an active character running in the scene.

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Table of Contents

1. The Workflow
   1. 1. Environmental Prop Placement
   2. 2. Real-Time Lighting Tweaks
   3. 3. Precision Collider Alignment

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The Workflow

flowchart LR
    A[Play Session] -->|Move Props & Lights| B[Live Diff Scanner]
    B -->|Exit Play Mode| C[Quick Restore Stager]
    C -->|Selective Commit| D[Edit Mode Scene Updated]

1. Environmental Prop Placement

• Run your character through an obstacle course in Play Mode.
• When you notice a jump gap is too wide, pause or grab the platform in the SceneView and move it closer.
• Adjust platform rotation and scale.
• Upon exiting Play Mode, select Filter: Transforms in the Quick Restore Window and click Apply Selected Changes.

2. Real-Time Lighting Tweaks

• Adjust PointLight / SpotLight intensities, shadows, and ranges while walking through dark corridors.
• Add UnityEngine.Light to your Auto-Save Rule Matrix to ensure all light adjustments persist immediately without prompting.

3. Precision Collider Alignment

• When fine-tuning trigger zones or boundary colliders, adjust the BoxCollider.size or BoxCollider.center while observing physics triggers firing in the console.
• Commit the collider parameters directly via the Inspector’s Apply Now button.