glowing physbox

I wanted to have a nuclear reactor thing goin, with glowing green physics radioactive rods that were underwater. Do texturelights act dynamically on physics objects? is there a way to do this?

humm, I may have to try a few things and see.. thats a good idea. Im not sure at this point..

now that i think about it, i got the idea from a video demonstrating the unreal 3 engine with transparent glowing spheres of awsomeness! anyhowz i think if you strap a crapload of dynamic lights onto it itll be possible, but itll still look funny...

Play with your Render Mode, and Render Fx. try this:

Make your func_physbox, name it. Now make another brush ontop of
it that is the same size, expand it so it is one unit larger than the
physbox. Make that a func_illusionary. Set the render mode
to glow and the render fx to slow pulse. Find a solid color
texture that would look good like that.

see if that works.

Dont use func_illusionary in source. Use a func_brush, and set its solidity to off. I'm also not sure whether render modes would work the same as in HL1... but they probably do.

Render modes do work the same, but I don't think that any lights have a dynamic effect on the func_physbox entity (well, texture lights don't, at least!). I'd suggest you read our modelling guide and make some rods, they're probably incredibly simple to make and skin!

ok the glowing effect around the rods works and looks kinda cool, but the actual dynamic light does not. I doubt worldcraft could do that by itself. I think you'd need some kind of sprite similar to that of the HEV suit's flashlight. At least i think its a sprite of some kind, i know doom 3 used one for its flashlight...

Try to tie a dynamic light entity to the rod, that'll give you lighting, but perfomance could be an issue maybe.