Turning Of Lights - With Explosions???

Shifty · Post by **Shifty** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:31 am

In my map "War in a Hall" One of the Collums Blows up - on each Collumn I have a Caged Light would it be possible to turn this 1 light off when the collum blows up Because its a bit daft Blowing up a Bit of Collumn and Still HAving a working light.

TheStorm · Post by **TheStorm** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 11:32 am

I would say it's possible! There are tutorials on making working light switches so I guess it would be possible to change the script a bit so that the explosion turns of the light instead.

I haven't tried the light switch myself but people say it works, there is a tutorial about that over at TMT www.modtheater.com (I would have given you the link but when I wrote this I couldn't connect to TMT, site temporary down/slow maybe?)

I don't think the light switch thing actually turns of the light but it changes the color of it to black. Not sure though?!?

Post by **jv_map** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 11:56 am

Yes you can switch off light, although dynamic lighting is very poor. Also, you'll need a custom TIKI for the caged light with custom shaders, as the original uses rgbGen identity whereas you'll need rgbGen lightingSpherical.

Anyway, do a search for 'torch'

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TheShiznaeSpe · Post by **TheShiznaeSpe** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:49 pm

you could just give the light a targetname and say $light remove

is that correct?

mohaa_rox · Post by **mohaa_rox** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:38 am

Yup, that should work. Maybe give a trigger_use with setthread "off" and in the script:
off:
$light hide
end

And on:
on:
$light show
end

Post by **jv_map** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:07 am

No it will not work. Lights aren't even entities.

Angex · Post by **Angex** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 11:40 am

Maybe you could use this in a script:

$light lightradius 0

Valoche · Post by **Valoche** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 5:36 pm

Create a script_model object, with the following attributes:
model fx/dummy.tik
targetname mylight

Then in your script:
$mylight 1 1 1 360 // Switch the light on
$mylight 0 0 0 0 // Switch the light off

It's still poor, dynamic lighting, but it works.

Valoche

Shifty · Post by **Shifty** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 6:28 pm

Thx Ill try that

Post by **jv_map** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 9:02 pm

Valoche wrote: $mylight 1 1 1 360 // Switch the light on
$mylight 0 0 0 0 // Switch the light off

Should be
$mylight light 1 1 1 360 // Switch the light on
$mylight lightoff // Switch the light off

Shifty · Post by **Shifty** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 9:34 pm

What happens if I have a Corona there also can i trun this off? as that would truly give it the effect of being off?

Post by **jv_map** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 8:47 am

Give the corona a targetname, for example 'corona'. In your script, type:

$corona hide //--> to hide the corona (not sent to client either)
$corona show //--> show the corona again

Valoche · Post by **Valoche** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 6:17 pm

jv_map wrote:
Valoche wrote: $mylight 1 1 1 360 // Switch the light on
$mylight 0 0 0 0 // Switch the light off
Should be
$mylight light 1 1 1 360 // Switch the light on
$mylight lightoff // Switch the light off

Oopsie my fault, used copy/type instead of copy/paste

Anyway, that was part of a tutorial I found somewhere on the web, and yes, there were coronas in the tut, too.

Valoche

Shifty · Post by **Shifty** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:15 am

Thank ya i'll try it out - no doubt ill be back for quastions though lol