My light doesn't want to bind!

[Shuriken1]

Ok, I am officially stumped.

I've made a lift in my map by following the tutorial over at rjukan project. Before I go on I'd like to thank them for doing that tutorial, very useful. Anyway, I want to add a light to the lift comprising of a static_lamp_lightbulb-caged, a static_corona_util and the light.

Obviously I need to bind those objects to the lift otherwise they won't move together.

First attempt: Give the corona and the light bulb the targetname "lift_cab_light" then, in the elevator_preparation thread;

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$lift_cab_light bind $lift_cab

This didn't work, when the lift starts moving, the light does not.

Second attempt: Give the corona the targetname "lift_cab_corona" and the lightbulb the targetname "lift_cab_light" then, in the same thread:

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$lift_cab_light bind $lift_cab
$lift_cab_corona bind $lift_cab

Same result.

I cannot believe that such a simple operation has confused me so much, I presume I have overlooked something so blatently obvious that I will need to do a ritual dance to make up for my stupidity. Anyway, any and all help is appreciated.

Thanks.

[HDL_CinC_Dragon]

i just recently had that problem on one of my maps with a trigger and a switch. i had them perfectly scripted to bind to the elevator but no matter what i did it didnt bind. i even deleted the two things and even the elevator and redid them. same thing. so i had to chooses a didfferent option :-\ my first idea looked great but my new one isnt too bad.

[bdbodger]

did you make them script_models?

[tltrude]

Yep, change the classname of both to "script_model". Be sure to make a backup of your .map first because script_models have a bad habbit of getting lost.

[Shuriken1]

Ok, that seems to have done the trick, on a slightly different note, I want the light to be notsolid so it doesn't get in the way. Is this the right code:

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$lift_cab_light notsolid

Also, all of my other lights seem to have disappeared, but I'm not sure that is directly related to the lift light at the moment. I will look into that before posting on here about it.
Thanks again.

[Bjarne BZR]

You can mark the NOT_SOLID checkbox for the script_model in Radiant ( will result in spawnflags = 1 ).

[Grassy]

I have a cable car that I fixed a corona to like this:

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  local.gl2 = spawn script_model model models/fx/corona_green_bright.tik scale 2.0 origin ( 4705 905 1600 ) spawnflags 1 targetname "green2" bind $platvator

All done on the one line, I get lazy and try to avoid typing Local.this and local.that all the time

Grassy

[Shuriken1]

Ok, thanks for the info guys. I've decided to redo the lighting in my map as it doesn't suit what I want it to do, so that will fix the missing lights at the same time.