Light volume resizing bug

[motorsep]

@greebo: I am sure it could be considered as a feature, not a bug, but due to different lighting techniques I feel like it would be beneficial to fix it (if it's an easy fix).

 

Basically, when I rotate light volume around Y or X axis, I not longer can resize it. Or rather, if I drag the sides, it's being resized in unexpected manner (I can record video explaining what's happening after work).

 

Is it possible to make rotated light volume to be resized as if it's normal light volume?

[Obsttorte]

I've noticed that, too. If you rotate it by 90 degrees, it will expand in the y-direction if you drag it at the x-axis and vice versa.

[Moonbo]

FWIW, the same issue affects moving the light_center on rotated lights.

Edited September 29, 2014 by Moonbo

[greebo]

This can be fixed. I only recently fixed something similar in the projected light vertex manipulation code. Please add a tracker entry.

[motorsep]

Alright, I will make a video and submit formal bug report.

[motorsep]

Reported: http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=3860

[buck28]

@ motorsep

 

Thanks for reporting this. I fought with this same thing, working on my first mission. I was too ignorant to realize that, this is wrong. I now know that this whole thing is a work in progress.

[Bikerdude]

I never thought to report this, but if this can be fixed along with the dragging lag issue that is awesome.

 

Talking of which has the light entity dragging issue been fixed..?

[greebo]

What light entity dragging issue?

[Bikerdude]

When you drag 'some' light entities the movement is very laggy.

[Moonbo]

The more lights that are present in a map a lag starts to take place whenever you move a light, with a lot of lights in a map this lag can stretch into seconds.

[greebo]

That never happened to me so far, probably because I'm not working on full-size maps most of the time. It's possible that DR's light interaction design causes lags when changing lights or a lot of primitives at the same time, but that is not something that is fixed easily. There are ideas to change it, but no actual steps have been taken so far to refactor this system.

[motorsep]

@greebo: What about resizing rotated lights ? Would it be an easy fix ?

[greebo]

Perhaps, I don't know yet. I haven't touched visual studio in a week.