javascript - I'm doing something wrong with SpotLights and shadows in Three.js

Question

I have a really simple scene which has one .dae mesh in it, and a 7000*7000 plane underneath the mesh. I'd like it to be lit by a high SpotLight, so the mesh throws a shadow on the ground. But, something seems to be broken! No matter how high I put the SpotLight, it never lights up the plane! Also, it lights the mesh up only a little, while it is in a small square (perimeter).

You can see the situation here:

As soon as I move the mesh (a monster) around, it wont be lit anymore.

This is how I instantiate the light:

// create a spotlight
self.spotLight = new THREE.SpotLight();

// set its position
self.spotLight.position.y = 1000; //I recon it needs to be relatively high so it lights up everything
self.spotLight.position.x = 0; //(0, 0) are the coordinates where the mesh is spawned, and are the center of the plane
self.spotLight.position.z = 0;
self.spotLight.castShadow = true;

This is how the plane is made:

//The plane.
self.plane = new THREE.Mesh(new THREE.PlaneGeometry(self.groundSize, self.groundSize), new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({color: 0x5C8A00}));
self.plane.receiveShadow = true;
self.plane.position.x = 0;
self.plane.position.y = -26;
self.plane.position.z = 0;

Also, here's another picture, this time, I've added a lot of PointLights:

You can see how the shadow still disappears!

Now, what am I doing wrong here? AFAIK, light should disperse equally in all directions! And also, there is another problem, I seem to be unable to add multiple SpotLights on the scene! Everything slows down completely if I do so - is this intended? Maybe it's because I enabled shadows on all of them...

@Neil, the same thing happens in your code as well!

Answer 1

I have created a jsfiddle showing a plane with Lambert material and a rotating cube that is casting a shadow, maybe you can see what is different to yours.

edit

Try playing about with some of the params, I can stop the clipping on my demo with:

spotLight.shadowCameraFov = 70;

update demo and moving demo