How do you set up flickerable texture lights?

hey i am really interested on how to get the texture lights alterative like the regular light entity flickerable ect... i have i heard it can be done with my version of zhlt , Zhlt_1.7p13.zip

by the way i have already edited the file so that i can create the texlights entity

The Merl set of tools comes with an instructions.html file that tells about doing this and the available flickers etc.

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All texlights can now pulse, flicker, and switch on and off, just like normal light entities. To use this feature, you need to set the 'style' value on the brush entity which has the light-emitting texture.
If your .fgd doesn't include style values, you can add the following to any entity...

<PRE> style(choices) : "Texlight style" : 0 =
[
0 : "Normal"
-3: "Grouped"
10: "Fluorescent flicker"
2 : "Slow, strong pulse"
11: "Slow pulse, noblack"
5 : "Gentle pulse"
1 : "Flicker A"
6 : "Flicker B"
3 : "Candle A"
7 : "Candle B"
8 : "Candle C"
4 : "Fast strobe"
9 : "Slow strobe"
12: "Underwater"
]</PRE>
The Grouped setting is essentially a hack to allow your texlights to be switchable. To use it, create a brush entity with texlights on it, and set its style to Grouped; then create a light entity with the same name as the brush entity.
Hlrad will now pretend that the light emitted by the texlight is "really" being emitted by your light entity! In other words, turning the light on and off will now turn the texlights on and off, too. (You'll probably want to set the brightness of the light entity to 0.01, so that it emits no light of its own.)
(This trick is unnecessary if you're using Spirit of Half-Life, which supports switchable texlights directly.)

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i read this and i never fully got it = / i might need a tut

Basically you make the brush entity that has the texture lights on it, and add a "style" value to it.

0 ok thx

The feature is rather buggy (apparently):

I have recieved several complaints regarding this feature, primarily false reports of the "Too many lightstyles on a single face" error on large or complicated maps, where the previous version of the tools worked fine.

You copy and paste that chunk of code into your FGD file (for a func_wall, perhaps), so you can set it like you would any other property of the entity. Or you can edit the entity, press 'smartedit', and add the key style with a value corresponding to what you want it, e.g. 12

i got a FUNKY messed up sumthin

OMFG I FEEL liek an idiot fixed everthin apreciated everthin u guys said ==DDD

i would swear this question was asked before.. perhaps masters gorby or lep would take it upon themselves to use this thread as a base for a tutorial???