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MCX X-Plane LIGHT_NAMED

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Good day Arno;

In MCX we are in the 'Attached Object Editor' .

Down the bottom we can specify X-Plane light_named parameter we like to use to show the light of our choice.

Although the light_named parameter is specified when exporting and saving as an x-plane obj it is not recorded and 'LIGHT_NAMED area_lt_med_bb' is recorded .

Basically the Light_NAMED parameter can not be specified as it does not get exported.

Thanks for your time



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Hi,

I have just checked the source code and you are right. The X-Plane OBJ exporter does not use this attribute of the light. It is only set by the importer when reading OBJ files so that you can see what kind of light has been set in the attached object editor. I have put a feature request on the todo list now to also use it in the exporter.
 
Hi,

This feature request had slipped through my mind a bit, but I have started looking at it again. Making sure the attribute is written is rather easy, so I'll add that. But I think a mapping from FS light types or even from fx names to X-Plane named lights might be useful, but I can't find a full list of the supported X-Plane lights. I have read it is in the lights.txt file. Do anybody maybe know where I can find an overview of what kind of lights are defined in there?
 
Thanks for the link to the test object. That should be useful for testing. I did just finish implement something. So I can use this object for a final test.

That documentation I had also found, but seems far from complete and it references the light.txt file for details.
 
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