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anyone else having issues with lights (or lights loaded by .dae) ?

by TheGasMan · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/28/2011 (2:51 am) · 2 replies

(I think this is only related to lights imported through a collada file)

If I move the lights; sometimes they fail to render.
I can move them ever so slightly or by multiple units and they either stay off or on, at random, after I move them. They have also randomly-failed to render at mission start...this is wonked.

If no one posts, I'll make a video tomorrow.

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Torque 3D Owner DANIEL M VOORHEES S.R.
#1
06/28/2011 (9:47 am)
I was having that problem the other night. The lights would not completetly fail. It would go dark like it was night time but only if my player character got to a certain heigth. Like when I would step up on a rick or go up an incline.

I tested with it a little and discovered it was not my player character, it was the camera angle, or rather camera heigth. If while in game play, I rotated the camera up and down, or if I moved the character up on something and it caused the camera to hit that plain or level, the lights would go dark.

So dark it almost looked like they went out. I could still see enough to make out structures in the water reflection and see a shimmer on the water. I tried to figure out what it was, it kept doing it off and on for about three hours that night. The next night when I logged back in to the project, it was not doing it any more. I can not remember if i only shut off my monitor before going to bed or if I shut down my PC.

I have running
EVGA GTX 550Ti 1Gig GDDR5 Graphics card
Running 3Gig DDR2 Ram
AMD Phenom 2.5 Quad Core
MSI K96PGM2-V2 Motherboard

I have all the latest drivers. I also have windows update deactivated so I do not get updates.

The lights would not go out unless the camera hit just the right heigth. Above it or below it they were normal.

It is not doing it on our other two computers, one of which has the same video card as mine.

Torque 3D Owner Christopher Tauscher
Default Studio
#2
06/28/2011 (9:52 am)
@E.B.: What are the steps to reproduce the issue you are having with lights?

Torque Owner TheGasMan
G.A.S. [+others]
#3
07/18/2011 (8:45 pm)
I've been swamped with work..I'll try to get more info on this, this week.