light statistics

[Oddmonger]

Hello,

I'd like to know if there's a way to display on screen light statistics.
You know, like the bounding boxes or normals on the meshes.

I tried :

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 light=scenemgr->addLightSceneNode(0,irr::core::vector3df(0,20,0));
 light->setDebugDataVisible(irr::scene::EDS_FULL);

but it displays absolutely nothing.

It would be very useful to display light direction, falloff , cone of light with a wireframe representation.
I don't see my light, and i like to know where it's located in my scene.

For the moment, i use cubes scattered all around the scene, and it gives me hint. But i'd like to know where the light exactly is.

Thanks!

[JP]

Well that would turn on debug data for the light so you'd probably get a circle rendered showing the radius of the light...

Check the mesh viewer example for how to turn on bounding boxes/normals/skeleton rendering for nodes.

[bitplane]

Currently only bounding boxes are drawn for standard lights, while directional lights also get a 3d line. It would be nice to have a billboard for the light position like in irrEdit though, using a sprite from the default font would probably be best.