Problems Triggering Lights

Re: Problems Triggering Lights Posted by Necromancer on Sun Jan 29th 2012 at 2:24am

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Posted 2012-01-29 2:24am

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I am of course able to toggle lights on and off, but for some reason whenever I have a light that is off and I want to turn it on, it does not have its special appearance. It just turns on and looks like a normal light does.

For example if I have a light that is off that has a custom appearance of "strong pulse" when the light turns on it behaves as a regular light with default appearance and does not pulse.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Re: Problems Triggering Lights Posted by omegaslayer on Mon Jan 30th 2012 at 4:00am

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Posted 2012-01-30 4:00am

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I don't think theres anything you can do - I too have noticed this when working with lights that you want to turn on and off. The HL engine (source as well) was never good with dynamic lighting.

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Re: Problems Triggering Lights Posted by Crisislord on Thu May 3rd 2012 at 8:19pm

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Posted 2012-05-03 8:19pm

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Necromancer said:
I am of course able to toggle lights on and off, but for some reason whenever I have a light that is off and I want to turn it on, it does not have its special appearance. It just turns on and looks like a normal light does.

For example if I have a light that is off that has a custom appearance of "strong pulse" when the light turns on it behaves as a regular light with default appearance and does not pulse.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Use env render to do the fast stobe again??