Problem attaching a light to a player

@ John K.,

This is a continuation of a thread that was started in the public forum and is now being moved here.

The problem that I am seeing is if a light is attached to a player, the clients that connect after the server side player is created will not see that player but yet it exists and can be collided with even though it cannot be seen and the light is not visible.

Also, this same behavior can be seen if a StaticShapeData object is created and mounted to the player. Instead of the player disappearing, the StaticShapeData object disappears just as the player did above.

The code that I am using to test this problem for the first scenario is by adding the following to the Crossbow.cs script to mount a light to mount0.

Thanks for the help!
John

function CrossbowImage::onMount(%this,%obj,%slot)
{
// Images assume a false ammo state on load. We need to
// set the state according to the current inventory.
if (%obj.getInventory(%this.ammo))
%obj.setImageAmmo(%slot,true);

%light = new volumeLight() {
dataBlock = "sgMountLight";
rotation = "-0.357694 0.933839 9.9834e-009 180";
scale = "1 1 1";
dataBlock = "sgMountLight";
Enable = "1";
IconSize = "1";
ParticleColorAttenuation = "1";
Texture = "common/lighting/lightFalloffMono.png";
lpDistance = "0.35";
ShootDistance = "5";
Xextent = "0.6";
Yextent = "0.6";
SubdivideU = "4";
SubdivideV = "4";
FootColour = "1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 0.182000";
TailColour = "0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000";
};
%light.attachtoobject(%obj);
}