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MCX MCX does not export point lights to XPlane OBJ Format

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Attached is an OBJ with the lights manually written in. If I open the object in MCX the lights appear fine, but if I re-export it only the spot lights are written.

I can get around this by manually changing all my point lights to spot in MCX, but I just thought this might be a bug that you might want to know about.

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Zev.
 

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Hi,

Thanks for reporting. This issue was reported recently to me as well, you are right that exporting of point lights is currently not supported. I could not find a good light type/name to use in X-Plane. I see this model uses "area_lt_med_bb" for the type, would that be a good choice? In the previous report the type "spot_params_sp" was suggested. But I could not find a good overview of X-Plane light types in the documentation.
 
I think its a matter of artist preference really.
I have no idea what the general consensus is.
The good news is a quick find and replace within a text editor can be used to change whatever default choice you use, after the fact.
 
Ok, I guess I can also make the light type to use an option.
 
Hi,

I have implemented this feature by now. It's in the current development release.
 
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