Unity Stealth AI: Light and Shadow Detection

What this clip demonstrates

• Lighting scales detection speed instead of switching the AI on or off.
• Bright pools create risk while dark routes buy the player time.
• The lighting factor remains part of the same explainable awareness pipeline.

Implementation notes

Darkness works best as a bounded multiplier. It should slow detection and open alternate routes without making a player permanently invisible at point-blank range. The rest of the vision model still decides whether the target is visible at all.

The result is easy to communicate: moving under a lamp raises awareness quickly, while crossing a dark gap creates a longer reaction window. Because the light factor feeds the same awareness track, it can be shown in the debugger and tuned alongside every other influence.