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Posted by SWATSiLeNt on Tue Dec 14th at 5:43pm 2004

I cant really seem to find anyway to creat light that glows. This means that the light as it hits a object glows on its path. I can get normal light but cant get it to set a glow underneith. If someone could make a tut on this or just tell me how, that would be great.



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Tue Dec 14th at 6:11pm 2004

I think you need to explain a bit more. Speaking in HL1 terms, are you talking about something like a glow sprite around the light source, or are you thinking more in terms of volumetric fuc_illusionary type lighting? [addsig]



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Posted by satchmo on Tue Dec 14th at 7:16pm 2004

I believe he either means using a light_spot entity or a glow sprite, based on his "kinda vague" description.
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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Dec 14th at 10:31pm 2004

Do you want the light effect in lockdown? they used sprites for that job.
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Posted by Samoflan on Wed Dec 15th at 12:36am 2004

Glowy light like in Indiana Jones Raider's of the Lost Ark? Where he avoids the light in the beginning to not set off the trap?





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Posted by Nanodeath on Wed Dec 15th at 12:46am 2004

Haha, that would be cool...



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Posted by nickster on Wed Dec 15th at 3:31am 2004

point_spotlight has a nice "stream" of light that you can see. Unfortunatly it also has a very bright spot of light at the source of the light. I wish I could figure out a way to get the "stream" without the bright source.



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Posted by motionblurrr on Thu Dec 16th at 6:20pm 2004

? quoting nickster
point_spotlight has a nice "stream" of light that you can see. Unfortunatly it also has a very bright spot of light at the source of the light. I wish I could figure out a way to get the "stream" without the bright source.

I take it you never looked at the flags for the point_spotlight? There's an option to prevent it from emitting the ever-so-expensive dynamic light.





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Posted by LAzerMANiac on Thu Jan 27th at 7:51pm 2005

you guys saved my soul!

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