florescent light glow

ive been messing with sprites for glowing lights, but cant find one to fit a fluorescent bulb. how do i do it?

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Um, in HL1 what I always did was to use a series of closely spaced small-scale sprites. It tended to work pretty well.

I would try using a texture from the lights.rad file. If thats not enough maybe a light_spot or light dynamic would work?

nono, im talking the glow effects. i want my light to look like its on, but not just in one single spot, like the length. i need a glow that is long!

make a tube-shaped brush that looks good as a flourescent bulb. then turn it into a func_wall. then set it to glow with whatever brightness suits you. Also, I believe that you can trigger this like a real light bulb. and it will glow and then turn off. It won't put out that much light so you'll need to make a light ent really close to the bulb so light shines off of it and looks real. PM me if you want a prefab so u can see how to do it.

I think your looking for a Glow sprite that isn't the normal point omni glow.

just make a env_sprite and under sprite path, hit browes and just check
out the diffrent sprite files, you'll find it there. I'll take a
look and find a name if I can.

Yeah, i really want ceiling lights like in Office, don't suppose anyone can post an example? (i.e. screenshot in Hammer.)

Those are simply models... Wich look like they are turned on. They give
a white glow all the time. But they don't emit any light. A spotlight
might help there.

You can find the model in models/props/cs_office/Light_ceiling.mdl.

I hope this is what you're looking for.

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