Hi, I just want to ask if this happen to other...
I want to optimize the game I made by removing unnecessary shadow casting light source by switching CAST OFF when the light source cant be seen from camera.

And setting them on again when they can be seen


The problem is that it wont work. The flag CAST itself changed but the light still casting shadow(if they're at the first time) or still not casting shadow(if they weren't) even if the CAST flag changed.

I do have a work around that's setting lightrange to 0 before switching CAST flag the setting it lightrange again, but it's very noticable since the light's out for one frame...

Could anyone tell me what's going on?

Its only an educated guess, but check and make sure the DYNAMIC flag is ON for the lights at all times.
Especially if they are placed in the level in WED, make sure they are DYNAMIC in there too.

FROM MEMORY,(so I may be wrong), lights created in WED default to static lights, and therefore
only get their light "values" calculated at compile time, and wont show any "value" changes made by the script...

Actually the light source it self are entities placed in WED and have action assigned. So I suppose that the DYNAMIC flag is automatically set to ON.
I dont want to place dynamic lights wildly in the WED since it can be affect the frame rate and not to mention ghost shadow glitches.

But I'll try to manually set the DYNAMIC to ON and see the result.

Thanks

Probably will be, if their actions are attached IN WED.

If you dont have any luck with that, then TRY this educated guess.
Try making sure the entities that in WED...
LIGHTRANGE == 0, CAST == OFF, LIGHT == OFF
and set them to on or whatever in the actions...

Just a test to see if it makes a difference on ONE of your known
"problem" entities...

Tested last night, it still doesn't work...

But it solved already by using static light to 'backup' the dynamic light(when it has to turn off). Still noticeable but it works...

Thanks EvilSOB

Bah... thats not a fix, thats a botch-job.
BUT it will do I spose, unless someone else reading this thread has an actual cure.
Im out of ideas....
Sorry dude.

Just went to wiki to find the meaning of botch


Hehe... I think so...

1,4, and kind-of 2 is my meaning...

try this :
reset(my,DYNAMIC);