Strange Light behavior

[Recon]

Hi,
   I created a light using

  csRef<iLight> light;
  iLightList* ll = room->GetLights ();

  light = engine->CreateLight(0, csVector3( 0, 0, 0), 1000000, csColor(1, 1, 1));
  ll->Add (light);

and created a bunch of sphere's using

csRef<iMeshWrapper> mesh (engine->CreateMeshWrapper (ballFact, "ball", room));

the sphere's are

   createsphere( "100000" , radius, center, "grid.jpg" , csVector3 (100000,0,0) );
   createsphere( "100250" , radius, center, "grid.jpg" , csVector3 (100250,0,0) );
   createsphere( "100500" , radius, center, "grid.jpg" , csVector3 (100500,0,0) );
   createsphere( "100700" , radius, center, "grid.jpg" , csVector3 (100700,0,0) );
   createsphere( "101000" , radius, center, "grid.jpg" , csVector3 (101000,0,0) );

   createsphere( "146000" , radius, center, "grid.jpg" , csVector3 (146000,0,0) );

The problem is that after the 100500 sphere the ligh only seems to work if camera can see the light.
say i am at 109000,0,0 looking at a sphere it's totaly black, but if i move the camera to 101100, 500, 0 and look back to 0,0,0 I can see the sphere.

is this expected behavior?


CS Rev 25428

regards

[jorrit]

What version of CS? What renderloop and shaders?

Greetings,

[Recon]

CS SVN REV: 25428
Renderloop ? Dont know, what exactly is the render loop?.
Shaders? Dont think i am using any shaders.

Sorry I cant give much info as i have not really gotten that far into CS. It's a very basic setup, Basicly Load a bunch of pluging and a nearly empty world XML file. then it adds the meshes and the light. The meshes are there and are easly seen if they are less that 100500 from the light.

I will try recreate the behavior using a simple XML world file and walktest and post it somewhere.

regards

[Recon]

I created a world.zip file for walktest.

Get different problems but probably the same cause. I created a sphere and a plane at (0,0,0) and (0,100500,0) , the meshes at (0,0,0) work as expected, but the meshes at (0,100500,0) dont seem to be visiable or working with the collision detection.

File can be DL from

http://www.uploading.com/files/Z38R0FY5/world.zip.html

there are 2 camera positions, camera position works ok, camera2 and you are falling through darkness.

If some else  could try this out and see if it's a local problem or something more general I would be very happy

Regards

[bookeater]

why are you using numbers like 100000+, isn't that considered big, possibly too big?