FxLight in Xbox version

I spent most of today trying to figure out why fxlights aren't rendered in the TSE Xbox build. This is probably using MS3 as its base. fxLights work fine in MS4, but so many things have changed that it is really hard to track down so I have narrowed it down I think :)

In fxLight.cpp, there is a function called registerLight, I don't have the exact code but it goes something like this.

void fxLight::registerLights(LightManager * lightManager, bool lightingScene)
{
	// Exit if disabled.
	if (!mEnable) return;

	// Animate Light.
	AnimateLight();

	// Return if lighting scene or light off.
	if (lightingScene || !mDataBlock->mLightOn) return;

	// Setup light frame.
	mLight.mPos		= mAnimationPosition;
	mLight.mRadius	= mAnimationRadius;
	mLight.mColor	= mAnimationColour;

	// Add light to light manager.
	lightManager->addLight(&mLight, this, false);
}

I also found that MS3 build doesn't use the Synapse lighting kit that MS4 uses so lightManager in MS4 in the above function points to a different function. In fact in MS4 LightManger.cpp is pretty much commented out.

Walking through the debugger the fxLight is never added to the lightManager, it always returns because registerLight is called when the scene is lighting. I'm not sure if this is suppose to be that way or not.

Now the second thing I noticed is that renderObject is never being called, but prepRenderObject is called. Again I'm not exactly sure of the function names, but I think I've got them right. If anyone needs the precise code, I can post it tomorrow morning.

So I took a look at projectile.cpp which calls renderObject from its prepRenderObject function. So I added renderObject(state,image); to the prepRenderObject function. It calls renderObject just like it should now, I walked through the code and it doesn't throw any errors, but still I get nothing.

I don't get the rendered image that I defined in the datablock or anything, just empty space.

So I am starting to think it may be a problem with the ScreenRenderImage that is generated in prepRenderObject function.

It goes something like this

SceneRenderImage* image = new SceneRenderImage;
		// Populate it.
		image->obj = this;
		image->isTranslucent = true;
		image->sortType = SceneRenderImage::EndSort;
		// Insert it into the scene images.
		state->insertRenderImage(image)

MS4 has this commented out and has this running instead:

RenderInst *ri = gRenderInstManager.allocInst();
	   ri->obj = this;
	   ri->state = state;
	   ri->type = RenderInstManager::RIT_ObjectTranslucent;
	   ri->translucent = true;
	   ri->calcSortPoint(this, state->getCameraPosition());
	   gRenderInstManager.addInst(ri);

So has anyone had any experience trying to get fxlights to work in the Xbox version, or MS3. should I take a stab at converting RenderInstManager from MS4 into MS3. There is a huge difference between the two, MS3's file is huge, while MS4's has very little in it. I just don't understand why the render call doesn't actually display anything.

Note: fxLight.cpp and fxLight.h are included in the Windows project file, but not the Xbox project file so once I get it working on Windows I have to port it over to the Xbox version.

Please Help if you can.

Thanks in advance,
Adam