I want a lightbeam coming from my lights?

Vigilante212

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• Feb 4, 2009

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I want to make a lightbeam coming from my lights, but the spotlight entity is too resource intensive. Is thier a way to do it with a sprite entity?

 

Altaco

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• Feb 4, 2009

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use point_spotlight, make sure the "effect only" flag is on. If that's on then it won't use the dynamic light as well, which lags up the game a lot.

 

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Vigilante212

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• Feb 5, 2009

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ok good, because it looks great, but I didnt want to add unnessesary lag.

 

TotalMark

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• Feb 5, 2009

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There are a few sprites in the GCF that are spotlights, but the point_spotlight entity looks better in game anyway.

 

Vigilante212

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Yea i worked with it last night and it doesnt seem to affect my performance any and it adds that little touch my maps lighting was missing.