How do I make light textures flicker?

I just wanted to know how you make them flicker.

In Half-Life, textured lights didn't actually flicker. It was a regular texture with a light entity with a "flicker" Appearance. However, with the advent of the new compile tools, I believe Texture Lights can have light styles. Look in your ZHLT documentation for help on giving texture lights "appearances".

SnarkSephiroth said:
I just wanted to know how you make them flicker.

1st off, no i don't remember how, but i have seen this question asked and answered before, did it not make it to v4? .. it has something to do with adding the flicker code to the rad file.. but i suggest you wait

wait a bit, either CCS or campaignjunkie i think answered it last time.. not sure tho..

you did search? right?

 

[edit] sorry CJ, notice the time stamp, i didn't realise you were already on it.. :smile:

/me leaves quietly

Ill look into that texture thing. But I can make light entities flicker right?

SnarkSephiroth said:
Ill look into that texture thing. But I can make light entities flicker right?

easily, in the properties..

 Thanks Campaign and Orph.

The answer to your question can be found here http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/tracer%20bullet/instructions.htm

scroll to the bottom and you will find all the info you could need.

Orpheus said:
[edit] sorry CJ, notice the time stamp, i didn't realise you were already on it.. :smile:

/me leaves quietly

I don't really think an apology is neccesary to anyone, but, uh, whatever floats your boat.

if your looking to have the texture look like its flashing on and off, it wont really emit light, but you could make an animated texture. its acually pretty simple,

make the frames you want for the light, what it looks like on, and off, or dim.

then you'll want to make all the different images (frames) a different texture, but they have to have the same name.

to create the animation you'll want to add "+0" to the beginning of the first frame, "+1" to the beginning of the second frame, and so on for each frame you got. that will take care of the visual part, then all you'll need to do the acually lighting, and sequence its flicker to the animation of the texture.

hope i didnt make this too confusing.

I have the exact same problem.
I have a Lamp-Texture (func_wall) with texture lightning in the light.rad. I have a refering light entity with the same color and name as the texture - but brightness is set to 0.01.

With a func_button I can toggle the texture light on and off.

Now I can play with the "texlilght style" value of the func_wall and the "appearacne" value of the light entity. But it doesn't matter what combinations of "Flicker"; "grouped", or "normal" or whatever - the light never flickers or strobes or does anything. It's only on or off.
I don't even need to switch it on or off. I just wanted a flickering texture light. i used the func_button only for testing.

By the way: the link provided by Tracer Bullet doesn't work.

Are there any more suggestions or tuts I can search exept from creating a custom texture?

Thanks a lot

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