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Lights turn on and off randomly, some don't work.

by Dave Calabrese · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 11/03/2008 (2:18 pm) · 0 replies

I have a room that is a .DTS object. In this room I have a number of static light objects, and I am finding some rather weird problems. 2 problems, to be exact...

1.) Whenever I walk around the room, some lights will randomly shut off. It's almost as if there is an invisible line... and if I walk past it, a light shuts off, and if I go back over the invisible line, it turns back on.

2.) Some lights just don't work at all. I can sometimes copy / paste a working light, or create a new one from scratch, and the light never illuminates, or if it does, it won't be as bright as other lights that use the same lighting datablock - even if I delete every other light in the scene.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what might be happening here with the lighting system? This is in stock TGEA 1.7.1.

Thanks!

- Dave Calabrese
Gaslight Studios