Problem with multiple lights on a single part

[Eleusis La Arwall]

I'm working on a part that will have 3 different light-animations, red, green and blue. It has an actual light source and an emissive surface. After fiddleing a bit around I found an almost working solution. The only problem I have is that the green and blue lights/emissives don't work unless I turned the red light on and off before.
Also the part will become a stand-alone EVA-item, so the color needs to be changeable from EVA.

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1. Attach the part, activate blue light -> nothing happens.
2. Deactivate blue and activate green -> nothing happens.
3. Deactivate green and activate red -> success! The actual light and the emissive work.
4. Deactivate red and activate green -> success! Now the green lights work as well.
5. Deactivate green and activate blue -> success! Now everything works as expected.

The log shows no errors or warnings. It feels like I'm just missing some tiny detail but I have no clue what it could be.

My animation setup in unity and module-config:

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All animations use the same light and same object for emissives.

	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleAnimateGeneric
		animationName = KDLaunchSiteDeployAnim
		...
		SNIP
		...
		layer = 1
	}
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleAnimateGeneric
		animationName = KDLaunchSiteLightBlueAnim
		actionAvailable = true
		actionGUIName = Lights Anim Blue
//		defaultActionGroup = Light
		startEventGUIName = Lights Blue start
		endEventGUIName = Lights Blue end
		eventAvailableEditor = true
		eventAvailableEVA = true
		eventAvailableFlight = true
		evaDistance = 5
		layer = 2
	}
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleAnimateGeneric
		animationName = KDLaunchSiteLightGreenAnim
		actionAvailable = true
		actionGUIName = Lights Anim Green
//		defaultActionGroup = Light
		startEventGUIName = Lights Green start
		endEventGUIName = Lights Green end
		eventAvailableEditor = true
		eventAvailableEVA = true
		eventAvailableFlight = true
		evaDistance = 5
		layer = 3
	}
	MODULE
	{
		name = ModuleAnimateGeneric
		animationName = KDLaunchSiteLightRedAnim
		actionAvailable = true
		actionGUIName = Lights Anim Red
//		defaultActionGroup = Light
		startEventGUIName = Lights Red start
		endEventGUIName = Lights Red end
		eventAvailableEditor = true
		eventAvailableEVA = true
		eventAvailableFlight = true
		evaDistance = 5
		layer = 4
	}

 

[SpannerMonkey(smce)]

3 hours ago, Eleusis La Arwall said:

The log shows no errors or warnings. It feels like I'm just missing some tiny detail but I have no clue what it could be.

My animation setup in unity and module-config: 

Hi, you'll be glad to know that you are not alone in this problem.  I've similar things, usually two colors ,  and since 1.4 it seems that i can't have more than one light module on a part, without having , as you mentioned weird effects occur, and i was running completely separate lights and emissives. SO whatever the missing key i couldn't find it  despite many different arrangements and compromised ( ) and just rolled the lights into one animation.  which i gather is not something that will work in your case. .

 

Edited May 25, 2018 by SpannerMonkey(smce)

[Eleusis La Arwall]

That is a real bummer, thought I could finish that part today. At least I'm not alone with this problem. Hopefully it will be fixed. You're right, an all-in-one animation will not work for me

Thanks for your quick reply! Gonna look around for another way.