[Imstk-developers] Light Types

[Milef, Nicholas Boris]

Ok, I'll do that! All of those light types are in VTK, but the naming convention is what throws me off. The reason why I mentioned this is because there are other light sources besides those three that act very differently, yet still could logically be called scene lights. Basically, I would just like to use the common names for them.

VTK has HeadLights (spotlight), SceneLights (spot/point lights), CameraLights (spot/point), and DirectionalLights (directional). I would do this:

- Light
    + Directional
    + Point
      - Spot (could be implemented differently than point)
        + Head
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From: Alexis Girault [alexis.girault at kitware.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:38 PM
To: Milef, Nicholas Boris
Cc: imstk-developers at imstk.org
Subject: Re: [Imstk-developers] Light Types

Feel free to change up all this. We'll just have to add warnings when one of the modes you want to implement isn't part of VTK when using VTK rendering. You might also want to remove the vtkLight from the imstkLight and have a conversion instead of simply wrapping vtk.

>From what you told me we could have directional (not in VTK?), point light (not in vtk?), spot light, head light (easy interface to spotlight on camera).
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