Directional light entity helper should not grow with light intensity about pex-renderer HOT 9 CLOSED

I'm looking at v4 alpha. IMO size of gizmo should be only related to range as it indicates physical distance. Directional light being prism like omni/point light is just confusing as usually quite big=strong. Maybe a quad with more and more lines sticking out if it (could work well for point light too). Will do research how others do it.

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Which version are you looking at?

Currently v4 alpha has:
directional light:

• intensity: prism size

point light:

• range: lines sticking out of prism vertices lines length
• intensity: nothing, should be prism size maybe ⚠️

spot light:

• intensity: cone apex circle radius
• radius: cone base outer circle radius
• innerRadius: cone base inner circle radius
• range: cone length

area light:

• intensity: lines sticking out of rectangle vertices lines length
• width/height (eg. transform scale X/Y): rectangle size

I am in favour of showing intensity/range in light helpers as it helps differentiate lights and matches scene scale (bigger scene often = bigger range).

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Unity

• shows only icons by default and gizmo on select
• gizmos don't grow with intensity
• gizmos grow with range/size

• icon changes color with light color

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ThreeJS
the helpers are very basic with manual size setting

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Blender

• same as Unity, wireframe icon + gizmo for range (i prefer ugly unity icons for visiblity)
• no color visible on the icon

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Godot

• same as Unity, wireframe icon + gizmo for range
• no area light (screenshot showing unselected faded out spot light light in 4th slot)

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@dmnsgn i like godot/unity most

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Baylon

• 3d icon?! https://playground.babylonjs.com/#2898XM#3 - doesn't grow with intensity change

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Playcanvas

• icons when not selected
• intensity doesn't influence size, color reflected in icon
• no area light

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