How to detect when player looks at sun

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#1

I’ve done a bit of looking around and haven’t found anything about this topic.

When the player looks at or near the sun, I want to blind the player (I’ll probably mess around with depth of field or blur properties)

The problem is, I don’t know how to detect when the player is looking at or near the sun. Is there a way to calculate the position of the sun using lighting properties like TimeOfDay and GeographicLatitude?

#2

Do you want to detect when the camera looks at the sun, or when the character’s head looks at the sun?

#3

When the camera looks at the sun. It’s for a first person shooter

#4

Add a new script into StarterPlayerScripts, and paste this inside:

--//Services
local Lighting = game:GetService("Lighting")

--//Variables
local CurrentCamera = workspace.CurrentCamera

--//Controls
local theta = 20
theta = math.cos(math.rad(theta))

--//Loopds
while task.wait(0.5) do
	local dirSun = Lighting:GetSunDirection()
	local dirCamera = CurrentCamera.CFrame.LookVector
	
	if dirSun:Dot(dirCamera) >= theta then
		print("Player is looking at sun")
		
		--//Run code
	else
		print("Player is not looking at sun")
	end
end

You can use :Dot to check the angle between the camera’s LookVector and the sun’s direction.

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#5

You can use sunrays in lighting.

#7

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