Hi,
I was wondering if in the next version of GS you could allow the programmer to set the length of the vecLightPos and vecLightColor arrays so that more than 8 lights could be used in a shader.
Also, can you PLEASE REMOVE THE SUN LIGHT FROM THESE ARRAYS! We already have the sun in its own variable for shaders - right now, the sun gets applied 2 times if we use the sun vars and the regular vecLightPos vars. Also, the lighting for the sun is often different anyway so it (at least for me) messes up my shaders due to the sun being a point light (regardless that it is very far away). I would prefer to just apply the sun as a directional light which is faster.

I would really appreciate if you could change these 2 things. -Mike-

I'm afraid the other shader programmers would not like if we remove the sun. Setting the length would also not work - more than 8 lights per surface are not supported by the engine.

so the 8 lights per surface is limited by the process of gathering the light positions or the process of rendering them using the standard engine? I wanted a longer list so I could render more lights - My plugin supports up to 255 dynamic lights (deferred).

also, if this cannot be done its ok - I need to make my own light manager for the shadows anyway so as long as I can use the bsp system to find more than 8 meshes per frame, I'm fine anyway