Bug report: Light objects behave strangely in V6.4 (deleted objects reappear)

[FrankS]

Thanks for checking!

@nathanletwory

Do these lights also reappear in the Lights panel?

AFAIR, yes, they are being resurrected as completely regular objects. They are selectable (hence, no display bug), Using _SelLight they will be selected. Just like regular lights, only back from the other side…

I don’t have a test file at hand, for the simple reason that closing and reopening files seems to get rid of unwanted leftovers. Happy for now that I managed to eliminate the zombies.
I was only copying, moving, grouping, ungrouping, moving to layers and deleting lights. The file I worked on is similar/related to the one I uploaded in the other bug report:

Bug report: Light intensity and color settings ignored in cycles

I use an array of 10 small linear lights to simulate an LED stripe. The lights are grouped. When the group is selected, I change “Intensity” and “Color” in the properties panel for all lights simulatanously. So far so good. But, … no matter if I set the intensity to 100, to 1 or to 0, the image is brutally overexposed and cycles seem to ignore the intensity settings. I tried to set the color of the lights from white (default) to dark grey, black, and even red just to try if it makes any diffe…