Recognize l3p's light.dat as a Blender light

[elfprince13]

It would be very helpful if light.dat was imported as light object instead of a mesh object.

[cuddlyogre]

I've actually been working on the LDraw light parts. I'll add this to the task.

[cuddlyogre]

I've read through:
https://www.ldraw.org/forums/thread-21721.html?highlight=light.dat
http://www.hassings.dk/l3/l3p.html

Blender has point, sun, spot, and area lights. Rotation and color look to work the same as any other part. But I have a couple questions.

How do you specify what kind of light it is meant to be?
How do you specify the brightness?

[elfprince13]

it should correspond to a point light as far as I know - and I think points have a radius which can be inferred from scale. Not sure how the brightness would work - might have to check through the l3p source?-- ~Thomas

[trevorsandy]

I've implemented lights for my (LPub3D) instance of LeoCAD - see blenderldrawrender.

Cheers,

[elfprince13]

Hi @cuddlyogre I am wondering if you've had time to look at this issue again recently?