material and light issues.

[Cube_]

That is one node, but each block uses a different material (probably because I set my material settings when I create the each cube, I should probably pass a material pointer but for now I just want to merge all the materials).

How would I set the same material for every face/vertex and then remove the redundant materials?

and to my light issues

All of these materials have the EMF_LIGHTING flag set to true, however regardless of how many lights I add I don't see anything change (they were completely black until I added global light at a strength of 0.3f)

This is the current lights in my scene (I've tried with up to 9 all at different positions, radii and colors)

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    smgr->setAmbientLight(video::SColorf(0.3,0.3,0.3,1)); 
       
    scene::ISceneNode* lightOne = smgr->addLightSceneNode(0, core::vector3df(2,2,2), video::SColorf(0.8f,0.8f,0.8f,0.8f), 3.0f);
    ILightSceneNode* light1 = smgr->addLightSceneNode( 0, core::vector3df(0,400,-200), video::SColorf(0.3f,0.3f,0.3f), 100.0f,4); 

I still don't get anything from this and I don't know why, this should just work with the EMF_LIGHTING flag enabled.

[mongoose7]

Remember the 'n's in S3Vertex that you dismissed? You might have a look at them now. They're the surface normals. If yours are 0, then n*cos(alpha) = 0 = black!

[Cube_]

Oh, thank you.
I'll have a look at that (and read up on how to properly set them)

EDIT:
I'm shocked, I got them right the first time (I wanted each normal pointing in the direction of the corner and it worked, and I was just guessing based on what seemed to make sense)


EDIT 2:
and my lights are working excellently now, again thank you.