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My warning to all.. LIGHTS

by Adam Wilson · in Constructor · 08/15/2007 (8:31 am) · 2 replies

It has come to my attention that working with lights (moving, rotating, ajusting properties, deleting) works just like it should save the file and the information will be saved unless you EDIT UNDO at any time (to anything) before you close out your file all your fixes may be undone (for lights) you will not see this happen until you open the file next time.. they may not all be undone but more and likely you will have at least one light that takes it's old status..

Until this is fixed when working with lights save and closes out your file. You all now how easy it is for our fingers to undo something with out thinking about..

Now I have not worked much in Constructor 1.0.3 do to the problems the export has and the unforeseen problems that may come up so it may have been fixed..
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Torque Owner Jeff Gran
#1
10/01/2007 (10:42 pm)
Are you saying that you just never undo so that your lights won't be messed up?

Here's what I've figured out in working with lights:

It seems that they are reversed on like the W coordinate or something each time you re-save the file. Luckily, when it reverses twice, it's back to normal. It's a little tricky, but this method works to get a file with saved lights back to normal.

1) save the file, quit for the day.
2) next day, open the file.
3) select all the borked lights (I usually just do all of them, even the point lights cause I think they get slightly messed up too) and move them a slight amount.
4) resave file.
5) close file
6) open the file up again
7) the lights will be back to normal but they won't work when you relight the scene. select all the lights again.
8) ctrl - C for copy
9) delete all the lights.
10) ctrl - V paste. the lights will all come back in the correct place and orientation.
11) ctrl - R for relight. your lights are back.

XD

Adam Wilson
#2
10/03/2007 (2:58 pm)
Basically that is what I was saying.. .. I was just saying that do all your light tweaks at the end of your days work so and don't undo and can save and close the file and at any time you are working with them don't do any undo.... but this was in 1.0.2 that i relay messed with Constructor..