Creating Lights

[silvercat17]

I'm working on making a light, but I'm not sure how to figure out what the light source x and y should be or how to change the brightness, aside from the percentage in SH.

Here's how it looks right now - the light doesn't seem centered behind the lamp.



And here's my settings from PluginFurnitureCatalog.properties

name#1=Star Sconce
category#1=Lights
icon#1=/Star Sconce.png
model#1=/Star Sconce/star%20sconce.obj
multiPartModel#1=true
width#1=20.32
depth#1=7.1602
height#1=19.33216
movable#1=true
doorOrWindow#1=false
lightSourceX#1=7.33333
lightSourceY#1=7.33333
lightSourceZ#1=0
lightSourceColor#1=#FFF6CA
lightSourceDiameter#1=15
elevation#1=121.92
modelSize#1=7098412

[Puybaret]

The brightness is set by the color, #FFFFFF being the maximum value.

[silvercat17]

Thanks, that's what I figured after thinking about it. Any tips on getting the light placed in the lamp?

[silvercat17]

If somebody needs this in the future, here's the answer, which should have been obvious to me.

To center it: make the LightSourcex/y/z half of the relevant dimension of the object.

[silvercat17]

Proof



And you have to make the light color WAY darker than you'd think.



Changing the color of the object doesn't affect the light color, but adding a texture may make weird black bars

The final settings:

name#1=Star Sconce
category#1=Lights
icon#1=/Star Sconce.png
model#1=/Star Sconce/star%20sconce.obj
multiPartModel#1=true
width#1=20.32
depth#1=7.1602
height#1=19.33216
movable#1=true
doorOrWindow#1=false
lightSourceX#1=10.16
lightSourceY#1=3.5801
lightSourceZ#1=9.66608
lightSourceColor#1=#2b290b
lightSourceDiameter#1=1
elevation#1=121.92
modelSize#1=7098412

[Puybaret]

Great you found out by yourself [:)]
If you need to put the light source at another location that the center, please see this post.