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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.

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?!?

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' .

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

is that correct?

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

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

Maybe you could use this in a script:

$light lightradius 0

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

Thx Ill try that

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

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?

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

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

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