[Algorithms] Lighting Issues

[Michael H. <mh...@h2...>]

Just in case there's anyone not quite sick of discussing lighting with those
of us that just can't quite get it :)
I've looked over all of the posts in the last couple of months. I know that
people (answering a lot of my questions) have gone over some of this, but I
still have a question.

Lights in Maya have the following properties: intensity, falloff type
(linear, quadratic and cubic) and color.
Lights in D3D have no intensity, a range and 3 values for the attenuation
formula, which is (1 / (A + (B * d) + (C * d^2))) [where d is the distance
from the light to a vertex].

Does anyone know how to convert the lighting values from Maya to something I
can use in either OGL or D3D? I can't find any Maya documentation that helps
on this. How have others handled this? Are the other 3D packages lighting
models closer to the major 3D API's?

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike