Fancy Lighting

Night_Eagle

<div class="IPBDescription">...Moving Spotlights...</div> Is it possible to make moving spotlights?

brute_force

No, not really, unless you feel like making a bunch of them all angled in different directions, which would take up alot of entities and lightdata.

BlackPlague

umm i think so..

have a long light touching and fading the texture touching the floor connected to a func_rotate easy.

Chods

what do you mean by moving?

you can make a func_train or something like that to follow a path and get the spoltight to target the func_train so taht the spotlight follows a path. there might be a way to get the source of the ligth to move as well but im not sure.

Night_Eagle

Is the target key on lights what the lights point at?
If so, can they only target entities?

brute_force

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If so, can they only target entities? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
The ideal thing for a spotlight would be an info_target, but since these add to the runtime entities, it's better to use an info_null. If you point it at a func_train, I don't think it'll move.

NEO_Phyte

if you point it at a func_train, be sure to include an origin brush in said train

if you dont, the light will point towards 0,0,0 on your map (the center)

Night_Eagle

Oh...
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that is why targeting my brush didn't work,
I forgot the origin brush.
Thanks

Chods

ok to tell you the truth, i havent really tried that with spotlights, but with a camera instead, but im hoping its still the same. it also worked with env_beam or whatever i used to make lasers

brute_force

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Well, even if it does work, which I doubt, it will probably boost your lightdata by 30 percent or something...

Wolv

Moving spotligts will NOT work. Half-Life doesn't dynamicaly calculate the lights, and would have to precalculate every single position the light could assume.
You can simulate the effect with a rotating func_whatever brush and a fading texture, as mentioned by BlackPlague.