Lamp not moving

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Heya

I have an infinite length road, and it’s totally awesome, except for one thing: the lamp, which is placed at the start of the infinite road, shines very little light on the player as I progress farther and farther on this infinite road.

This makes sense.

Now, I figured that parenting the lamp to the player so it moves with the player would be a genius solution.

However, despite the fact that the lamp object is moving, the light from the lamp is still coming from where the lamp used to be.

I know that the lamp ‘is’ moving, because if I give it some physics bounds and turn on physics visualization, I see the visualization that is the lamp moving around perfectly.
Also, if a spotlight is used instead of a generic lamp, the fact that it is not moving is more quickly noticeable.

In Case I still haven’t made clear what is happening, here are two screenshots and the blend file.



If the lightsource does update for you, I suppose I’ll just blame it on my graphics card not supporting something or other, and move on.
If it’s something in the nature of lamps, I may have to use a ‘sun’ lightsource, and just live with it.
Though I’d prefer if the lamp properly moved with the player object.

Attachments

runner.blend (195 KB)

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It works fine with me man.
In case you haven’t tried, save file and re-open it. So just close blender and load it again.
Or just re-download blender pherhaps?

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Man, I restarted, saved, closed opened, and such many times… it still does the same thing for me.

As I drive farther on, things become more shadeless and less bright /contrasting as they initially are.

I’ll just blame it on my lousy graphics card.

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I think you are using 2.49, it is fixed in 2.49a.