Changing Light Colour

Bilko · Post by **Bilko** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:30 am

Right, I've made a script/model as my light and it works fine, however, I've discovered that it shines through walls. Is there a way to change the colour of a normal light when a switch is triggered? Ive tried "$real_lights.color 1 0 0" and "$real_lights color 1 0 0" but with no success. Any ideas?

Bilko.

Post by **jv_map** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:41 am

Try

$real_lights lightRed (value 0 to 1)
$real_lights lightGreen (value 0 to 1)
$real_lights lightBlue (value 0 to 1)

Bilko · Post by **Bilko** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:11 pm

no, no luck. I read somewhere that lights aren't entities, could it be that you can't assign a light a targetname?

Bilko.

Serph · Post by **Serph** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:38 pm

are you saying that the light goes through your walls?

if I'm right can't you just use sunblock?

Post by **jv_map** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:54 pm

You can't change the color of a point light (the one you place in Radiant) dynamically. This is because lightmaps are precompiled

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I thought you were talking about dynamic lights

Bilko · Post by **Bilko** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:56 pm

Ahh, ok. Different way of looking at the problem. Is there a way to stop dynamic lights shining through walls or are we back to 'the wall doesn't know it's a light' etc?

Bilko.

ps. can u at least hide them, or not?

Post by **jv_map** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 2:14 pm

A dynamic light can be 'hidden' with the lightOff command.

Example:
$light lightOff

Bilko · Post by **Bilko** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 3:12 pm

Sorry, I meant normal lights then, shoulda said. Anyway, seems impossible so I'll give up.
Thanks for your help JV.

Bilko.

SlasherZ · Post by **SlasherZ** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 4:51 pm

normal light color can be changed by key: color

Bilko · Post by **Bilko** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 5:10 pm

I mean in-game.

Bilko.