red dot

Hi everyone,

I am looking to make a security camarer, I have everything done accept one thing, the model of my security camarer needs a little red dot to show that its on like in real life, I cant seem to find the right env_ entity and a normal light does not produce an actuall dot of light.

Anyone have any ideas or sulutions?

an env_sprite

a self-illuminated texture sounds like the right answer.

the texture for the camera needs to have an alpha layer, which should be all black except for a light/white spot in the same place as the red spot is on the RGB layer. Compile the texture again, and add $selfillum to the .vmt file. you should now have a camera with a little red light on it, without using any extra ents. Though a little env_glow would probably look good on top of it.

Sorry but im not that good at entitys, teh env_sprite just came out black with the white in the middle and im not sure how to make it transparent so its just the light.

also, the env_glow is no such entity and im not sure what you meen by the long solution, does it involve making a black texture? I cant make textures

use an env_Sprite and set it like this:

rendercolor "255 0 0" (RED)

rendernt "200"

rendermode "glow" (or "additive").

scale "0.5" (or any size you want)

No need to play with the spritename since the default would do fine.

Now, if you want your sprite to move around with your camera, name the
camera "camera" and then set the sprite's parent to be "camera".

Sorry, it did not work, I still see a black outline with a white center.

When you choose the name of your sprite, browse around and find
redglow1.vmt, I believe that is the only translucent red glow sprite.

I set it as And said and used the redglow texture, it worked fine, thanks everyone