I have a "VIEW" entity which displays a different camera from the main player cam on a screen. It seems to work fine overall, but I noticed that lights do not seem to work when viewed through the secondary camera, only ambient light as set in the VIEW object. Is there a way to activate lights in a VIEW object?

Sometimes if I change the angle of the main camera, looking at the view entity, the lights show up, but it is not working the way I want. Any ideas?

If I add sunlight to the scene, the VIEW entity can pick that up. However, when another entity emits light, the VIEW entity does not show those lights.

there may be some clues here
http://www.conitec.net/beta/aentity-lightrange.htm
all ent lights are dynamic lights

I'll continue to search the um /Manual

another possible factor , clip ranges differ per views (camera being a view)
http://www.conitec.net/beta/aview-clip_near.htm

more information to note
http://www.conitec.net/beta/light_view.htm

information to note when using dynamic light s
http://www.conitec.net/beta/ad3d_pointlightfalloff.htm

ding ding ding Winning information HERE
http://www.conitec.net/beta/amax_lights.htm
All dynamic lights are clipped against the light_view frustum. If the active view is different to the predefined camera view, the light_view pointer must be set to the active view, or to NULL when there are several active views and the lights must not be clipped.


found in that um manual

http://www.conitec.net/beta/camera.htm

same remark in camera
Dynamic lights are clipped against the light_view, which is set to camera by default. If the active view is different to the camera view, the light_view pointer must be set to the active view, or to NULL when there are several active views and the lights must not be clipped against one of them.

more info
http://www.conitec.net/beta/light_view.htm