Destroying Spotlight object affects other ofLight objects

@cuinjune wrote:

Hi, I use openGL 2.1 and I learned that up to 8 instance of ofLight object can be used at once in this version.

So I tried to use and destroy ofLight instance and it seemed to be working well this way.

But today I found out that if I create and destroy ofLight instance which is set to spotlight, it caused other ofLight instances to not work properly.

Here's a simplified test code.

in ofApp.h,

   unique_ptr<ofLight> directionalLight, spotlight;

in ofApp.cpp,

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void ofApp::setup(){

    //directionalLight
    directionalLight = make_unique<ofLight>();
    directionalLight->setDirectional();
    directionalLight->setOrientation(ofVec3f(0,120,0));

    //spotlight
    spotlight = make_unique<ofLight>();

    //the following 3 lines below caused directionalLight to not work properly
    //commenting out one of these makes it work again.
    spotlight->setSpotlight();
    spotlight->enable();
    spotlight.reset();

    ofEnableDepthTest();
}

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void ofApp::update(){

}

//--------------------------------------------------------------
void ofApp::draw(){

    ofGetGLRenderer()->enableLighting();
    directionalLight->enable();

    ofDrawSphere(ofGetWidth()/2, ofGetHeight()/2, ofGetHeight()/4);

    directionalLight->disable();
    ofGetGLRenderer()->disableLighting();
}

As it is stated in the code, destroying spotlight with .reset() causes directionalLight to not work properly even though one should not affect the other.

I tested this with pointLight, spotlight and directionalLight and destroying the spotlight only caused this issue.
So I'm pretty certain that this is a bug and I would appreciate if anyone can confirm this issue.

My testing was done with OF 0.9.8 on Mac OS X 10.11.6.

Thanks!

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