Id Tech 4 light properties support

[idk-droid-ship-it]

Is there a way to edit light properties specific to Id Tech 4/Doom 3, like using projected lights instead of point lights? Using the entity inspector I'm able to modify things like color and texture, but so far I can't find a way to use anything but point lights. Doom3Radiant and DarkRadiant both have a light inspector menu for this purpose, but there doesn't seem to be a similar feature in NRC. Is there any other way to edit these light props?

[Garux]

Since these properties are defined by entity keys, yes, its is editable via entity inspector, but there is no in-depth support, like GUI and preview.

[idk-droid-ship-it]

That's what I imagined, however some of the keys that control the shape and behavior of the light don't show up on the entity inspector nor the notes section, like light_up, light_right, light_target and parallel. The viewports (both 2d and 3d) do display the light properly after setting the relevant keys manually.

Would a more specialized editor/mode be out of scope for the project? If so, is there at least anything I can edit by hand to get the missing keys listed on the entity inspector?

[Garux]

Deep idtech4 specific features support, like in Darkradiant, is quite insane amount of job, so there is no plan to implement this.

Entity definitions are read from .def files in game folder, light is in misc.def. Possibly @Overwatch-C-17 can add keys to override packs.
Supported light keys.

[idk-droid-ship-it]

Yeah I imagine it'd be a lot of work, would however a PR (or a set of them) to add more idtech4 support be welcome? Nothing as in depth as DarkRadiant, but at least to bring it a bit closer to Doom3Radiant. I'm not familiar with the codebase yet so it might take me some time, but I can see myself setting aside some free hours for this.

[Garux]

If it's not about breaking/slowing/overcomplicating normal code, it would be cool.

[Sp-Lily]

Entity definitions are read from .def files in game folder, light is in misc.def. Possibly @Overwatch-C-17 can add keys to #258.

Let me try to add it. I'll re-upload it here once it is done.

[Sp-Lily]

Here's the requested KVs added to the override mapping package. Do I need to add the rest of supported keys, or just these?

Also, sorry for the KVs description. Since I don't know the purpose of those KVs just yet, so I wrote it like that.

ZZ-DEditCleanDefsV3.pk4.zip

[idk-droid-ship-it]

updated-defs.pk4.zip
I added descriptions for all keys. I'm not sure how to do it in the definition file, but light_target, light_up and light_right should ideally be vectors (like light_radius) and parallel a toggle (like noshadows). (I'm not sure if that's supported through entityDefs).

[Garux]

https://github.com/Garux/netradiant-custom/blob/master/radiant/eclass_doom3.cpp#L436 "editor_bool"