How do you create a light at a point in space with no backdrop?

[arcanine]

I'm working on my project here: 

http://slifin.github.io/Flourish-babylon/

 

at the time of writing you should see there are some lights in the "atmosphere" of the planets, I'm trying to create a light at the blue spot, I want light to come from that spot by itself and not cast on anything else on the seen 

 

I've tried point lights but I can't see them directly, I can only see their affect on other objects in the scene, how do I get them to shine by themselves? 

[GameMonetize]

you have to add a sphere with emissive color where the light is

[arcanine]

Like this? http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#2NRDN

 

How do I get it to shine light outside of the sphere like a sun? Do I require a backdrop to the scene? 

 

edit: the link seems to redirect to the home page of babylonjs-playground.com then loses the reference to #2NRDN try putting it into the address bar directly 

[Wingnut]

Hi arcanine.  Here's a working example with a few fun add-ons. 

 

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#2NRDN#1

 

.emissiveColor is a property on a StandardMaterial, so your lightsphere needed a StandardMaterial added to its .material property, and then THAT material is where you set an .emissiveColor.

 

Also note that... when using BABYLON.Color3( r, g, b ) ...  r, g, and b are values between 0 and 1, generally speaking.  A medium gray would look like this...

 

new BABYLON.Color3(.5, .5, .5);

 

There IS a way to use 0-255 values...

 

new BABYLON.Color3.FromInts(128, 128, 128);  (medium gray)

 

Hope this all helps.  Good luck.