Re: strobe
Posted by Stranger on
Sat Jan 8th 2005 at 1:00am
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I'm looking to recreate the effect of a strobe. It should be blinding
lake the point_spotlight and yet flikker like (e.g.) the flikker
apearance off a normal light.
can someone help me with this?
Re: strobe
Posted by Yesurbius on
Sat Jan 8th 2005 at 2:07am
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Create a light entity, and in the appearance, set it to "Fast
Strobe". Ensure that the brightness is bright too ... maybe
900+
Re: strobe
Posted by Livett on
Sat Jan 8th 2005 at 8:36am
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Or if you want to do it manually. I think on a light_dynamic you can put in a custom appearance and azazazaz would make it full bright, off, full bright, off.
Re: strobe
Posted by Stranger on
Sat Jan 8th 2005 at 11:55am
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yeah i knew all that the question was how to make it blinding like the point_spotlight
what i realy need is something like the flash of the scanners (you know
enoying little flying things in HL2) but then a few times fast and
repititive.
thanx for your attempts though
Re: strobe
Posted by DrGlass on
Sat Jan 8th 2005 at 5:02pm
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The scanner used a env_fade. This sets a colored overlay on the
players screen. Only problem is that I think it will
affect everyone everywhere... But I could be wrong. make a
light and a env_fade with a input to fire them every 1 second, this
will turn them on and off a second at a time, that should be enough for
a good strobe.
But what would be even more real, an env_overlay (like the effect when
you first get on HL2 or when your in the teleporter with alyx) but I
have NO idea how to use that.
