I'm having the same problem Michael, however I can't seem to get the
PointLight3D to work with Dot3BitmapMaterials. does anyone know if
Dot3s support pointLights?

On Jun 7, 8:44 am, Michael Iv <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is hard to understand why directional lights position doesn't make sense
> . I mean , take 3d modelling program ,or UDK or Unity(ok that is not the
> same in terms of technology ) , but the light should have emission source
> and the soruce should have a position in 3d space ? . and the source
> position  of DirectionalLight3D is in the center of the scene, So if my
> object is not offset from the center ,there is  a problem , the object
> doesn't receive the light at all . And .direction doesn't help in this case,
> I was trying to tweak it too without much success . Eventually used
> PointLight3d.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:35 AM, richardolsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The direction property is the way to go. As of 3.5, directional lights
> > don't have positions, which never made sense anyway since dir lights
> > are orthographic in a way, and not to be considered as point in space
> > -- they are infinitely far away.
>
> > If you cannot get direction to work like below, make sure you are
> > using materials that support dir lights!
>
> > var light : DirectionalLight3D = new DirectionalLight3D;
> > light.direction = new Number3D(0, -1, 0); // Downward
>
> > Cheers
> > /R
>
> > On Jun 5, 10:15 pm, fab4ce <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi Fabrice,
>
> > > PointLight3D has a position property, but DirectionalLight3D doesn´t
> > > have it.
>
> > > On 5 Jun., 19:53, Fabrice3D <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > there is a position property
>
> > > > Fabrice
> > > > On Jun 5, 2010, at 2:08 AM, fab4ce wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > after updating to the new version 3.5 i had to change my directional
> > > > > light from view.scene.addChild(light) to view.scene.addLight(light);
> > > > > How can change my code for positioning the light in the scene? I was
> > > > > using the .x and .y and .z properties of the light object.
>
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