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scloopy Junior Member Offline Posts: 74	Turning off Lights mid-loop Oct 6th, 2006, 6:35am   This might be a stupid question, but how can I turn off a light once it's created without waiting for draw() to finish? I'm trying to draw some objects with different lights in an arbitrary order. I'm thinking of the processing alpha that had the noLights() method. Is that possible? Thanks! ryan

sd Junior Member Offline Posts: 68	Re: Turning off Lights mid-loop Reply #1 - Oct 13th, 2006, 8:06am   Well, as far as I've been into processing, I guess even turning off the light mid loop will be of no use coz no graphic is displayed until draw() is completed.
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watz Full Member Offline Posts: 202	Re: Turning off Lights mid-loop Reply #2 - Oct 16th, 2006, 8:19am   Ryan, try doing the following, it works for me with 0119 code. Code: g.lightCount=0;
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scloopy Junior Member Offline Posts: 74	Re: Turning off Lights mid-loop Reply #3 - Oct 17th, 2006, 2:25am   Thanks Marius that works great! sd, I think that stuff is always being drawn to the frame buffer, which gets displayed at the end of the frame, so turning lights on and off has an effect as stuff gets drawn, like fill() and stuff.. At least as far as I know.