maximum lights

[jontan6]

I think I read somewhere that I can only add upto 8 lights into a scene. What If my scene has many rooms? I should lightmap then?

Is it possible that I add lights to my scene but irrlicht precalculate the lightmap?

[nmn]

I think I read somewhere that I can only add upto 8 lights into a scene. What If my scene has many rooms? I should lightmap then?

Is it possible that I add lights to my scene but irrlicht precalculate the lightmap?

Use lightmaps in your scene if both your scene and the lights are static - For moving lights you could probably go dynamic for just the dynamic ones.

Also, I don't know how Irrlicht handles it, but you can have up to 8 lights if you only ever see 8 or less at a time. You can just manage them by setting all 8 of the lights to the closest 8. Irrlicht may or may not handle this for you.

[rogerborg]

Irrlicht will turn on the 8 lights closest to the active camera, without consideration of their type, radius or intensity.

[jontan6]

so i can place as many dynamic lights as i pleased right? its just that only 8 lights will be active at a given time? its ok with me. thanks!

[rogerborg]

Yes, but they may not be the lights that you want to be on. You said "rooms", but the lighting algorithm doesn't take occlusion into account, just distance from the camera, so lights will leak through from nearby rooms.

[jontan6]

its ok, ill just test throughly. i just thought before i cant add more than 8 lights