Do transforms work with lights?

[jwwalker]

Are the position and direction of a spot light affected by the transform associated with the entity of the light? Unless I've made a mistake, it looks like the answer is No, but that surprises me.

[romainguy]

You can transform lights. Some of our samples do it (see lightbulb.cpp for instance, it has a "disco ball" that rotates a bunch of spot lights).

[jwwalker]

OK, thanks. One thing I was missing is that I wasn't using TransformManager to create a transform component for the light entity. But I was also confused by the fact that applying a parent transform to the transform of a light does not affect what is returned by LightManager::getPosition, which says it returns a position in world space. Seems like it should really be called local space, if it's the position before transforms have been accounted for.