Question about Spotlights???

[Hitman]

Hi I am new to this whole mapping thing and I was wondering if someone could tell me how to angle a spotlight up(not straight up) but point it at an object.


I also have another question I just thought of I have seen in some map custom text that is to small to have been made by a brush or two. I was wonder how do I make custom text for my map.

[neillomax]

Scriptin ?.....angles 45, or -45
Mapping ?.....key....angles......value....45 0r -45
See if that might work

[Hitman]

Sorry Guess I was kind of vaga. Here is a screen of what my spotlight looks like at 45 angle. It is doing it on the ground I want it to point at the ball. I want it to point up. I need to know how to do this.

http://usera.imagecave.com/Hitman/Scree ... lights.jpg

Edit: img tags removed due to large picture size - Bdbodger

[Bjarne BZR]

angle is wrong for you, you want angles

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angles X_ROT Y_ROT Z_ROT

or using real numbers:

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angles 40 30 0

(rotate 40 degreen around X axis, 30 around y, and leave z as it is)

[Hitman]

Thank you that did the trick. I was also wondering is there away to make the beam bigger and maybe change the color.

And still would like to know about the custom text from the first question.

[neillomax]

Lost first reply so I'll retype.
Highlight the searchlight, go to the 2d sideview, hit the "R" key, item can now be rotated up using r mouse key

[Hitman]

Okay I got them pointed to where I wanted but when I compile and load up the game they are still point straight like the pic above. Not up at an angle like MOHrad shows what the heck.

[neillomax]

Did you remember to save your map after the change ?

[Hitman]

Yeah I have made a few changes and save since I did that and they all work fine.

[Hitman]

Okay figured it out (this might help some else with the same problem out).


I put in angle first with the angle i wanted.

The I put in angles with the angles I wanted and it show correct on MOHrad but not in the game.

This was because i didn't deleted out the angle I created and the loading process saw that first and ingorned the other angles.


I would still like some help with putting custom text in the game if anybody knows how.

[bdbodger]

Rotateing models with r is wrong and won't work very well you have to set angles . A model starts at angles ( 0 0 0 ) when you first put it in the map . The angels are pitch yaw and roll . Pitch is what you need to change to point up but pitch rotates in a forward direction so to pitch up you either have to set a negitive angle or a high number . for example to pitch up 45 degrees you either set a pitch of -45 or 315 . To rotate on the top view change the yaw you probably won't need to change the roll . In the playerspotlight script I made I used the searchlight_off.tik and put a small corona inside the light to make it look like it was on . I used a func_beam for the beam but if your light won't move you can use a cylinder with one of the textures in the common menu . If you make a cylinder the press v to show the vertices select the ones at the top for example then on the top view you can use r to make one end of the cylinder larger then do the same for the middle row to make it look good .

Also Hitman forum rules state that pictures should be a max size of 640x480 and that your post could be deleted if forum rules are not followed .

[Hitman]

Thank You guys again for all the Help.