[4.0.0] Pointlights no longer follow their targets

[Major Cooke]

I made that documentation after checking the source code a while ago. Just how do you plan on resolving this, then? Because this is bad. This has admittedly broken a few things in a few different mods of mine and something needs to be done about this.

Here's the problem with GLDefs that make it impossible for me to use it: the ability to define my own light patterns and color changes. I would have to write... at least a thousand different lights just to achieve the effect that I want.

[Graf Zahl]

The problem here is, that an attached light is now a completely different entity than before, so there is no simple way to resolve this. The entire functionality this depends on no longer exists - and it was removed for good reasons.

[Major Cooke]

So the only thing we can do now is SetOrigin?

[Graf Zahl]

Ideally this should be resolved by adding manually attached lights but I cannot give you any time table on such a feature.

[Matt]

For what it's worth, I ended up writing this:

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class TargetPointLight:PointLight{
    override void postbeginplay(){
        super.postbeginplay();
        if(target)setorigin(target.pos,true);
    }
    override void Tick(){
        if(isfrozen())return;
        if(!target)destroy();
        else setorigin(target.pos,true);
    }
} 

and having all my lights inherit from it, though later I scrapped it in favour of just doing all the lights directly because I had fewer than 20 to worry about and about a third of them already had their own Tick() overrides.