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ExplosionData - turn off lights?

by Danner Jones · in Torque Game Engine · 03/03/2004 (3:37 pm) · 2 replies

I was just noticing that my crossbow bolts give off a yellow light when they explode. I found the code in the script file crossbow.cs that sets the light's properties but I found no "hasLight" property to turn them off.

Looking in the engine it appears that the light is always added to the lightmanager. So if I don't want my projectiles to give off light when they explode, I can set both colors to black or the start/end radius to 0 but that still creats a light and, I'm guessing, must compute lighting when the explosion occurs although it will have no effect.

I can easily add a "hasLight" param to the ExplosionData datablock, but wanted to see if anyone else has noticed this or maybe there's something else I'm missing that makes the question moot :)

-Nerseus
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Torque Owner Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr
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#1
03/04/2004 (9:15 am)
Just checking but... are you sure it's the explosion that's generating the light, and not the projectile? The crossbow bolt has a light on it - so when it gets close to the ground, you could be seeing it as a part of the explosion.

Torque 3D Owner Danner Jones
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03/04/2004 (10:39 am)
Yep, I'm sure. Actually, they both have a light but I've turned it off on the projectile (hasLight=false) - now the light only shows up when the bolt explodes (on my DIF object, the faces highlight yellow).