The Light.Distant class imitates sunlight coming from a large distance, which you control only by the direction, set by elevation and direction (called the azimuth) angles, measured in degrees. The azimuth's boundaries are 0 and 360, and the elevation's boundaries range from 0 to 90:
The sample of the preceding LightingDemo on GitHub has controls to adjust both angles to see how it works for different values:
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