Hey, I was wondering if it was possible to make flashing lights in CoD. If its possible can you explain to me how to do it?

Thanks alot
Nightmare,

define flashing lights. Do you want real lights that cast shadows to be turned on and off constantly? Do you want lights to be flickering? We need a little more info, as the subject matter regarding scripted light animations in CoD is very complex.

The only controlable light tutorial I know of was made by Grassy (a genius in the making) and can be found here:

http://www.modsonline.com/Tutorials-read-292.html


that's for player controlled lights. You'd have to ask him about making scripted flashing lights.

I would like strobe lights that would flash on and off constantly like in a nightclub or dance room. Thanks for responding.

in the early days i tried scripting an fx lightsource as dynamic lighting - and found that in order to give off enough light to be visible (create light) there were ... side effects...like glowing brushes

you can however use them for effect lighting - but as for creating a light source....not so good

i believe i put up a stoplight tutorial by valoche...i think that was who did it first

Well the fact that we can turn lights on and off manually..

Thanks WHC_Grassy! Excellent Work

We can sotra make blinking lights.
Strobe effect is hard to get cause the light needs time to show up in the level.
So I ended up with a flashing light.
I did it in SP but it can also be done in MP.

Do This.

1/ Put a script_model for the on light

targetname:lightonmodel

2/ Put a script_model for the off light

targetname:lightoffmodel

3/Put s blank script_model for the light

targetname:light

I Put all the entites in the same space in the map.

Then I used this script.

main()
{
maps\_load_gmi::main();
strobe_off_handler();
}




strobe_off_handler()
{ 
wait .2;// This number controls the Blinking
level.dist = 1000;
lights = getent ("light","targetname"); 
distdown = 0 - level.dist;
temp1 = spawn ("script_origin", lights.origin + (0, 0, distdown));
lights moveto (temp1.origin,0.1,0.1,0);
temp1 delete();
lightoff = getent ("lightoffmodel","targetname"); 
lightoff show();
lighton = getent ("lightonmodel","targetname"); 
lighton hide();
thread strobe_on_handler();
}

strobe_on_handler()
{
wait .2; // This number controls the Blinking
level.dist = 1000;
lights = getent("light","targetname");  
distup = 0 + level.dist;
temp2 = spawn ("script_origin", lights.origin + (0, 0, distup));
lights moveto (temp2.origin,0.1,0.1,0);
temp2 delete();
lighton = getent ("lightonmodel","targetname"); 
lighton show();
lightoff = getent ("lightoffmodel","targetname"); 
lightoff hide();
thread strobe_off_handler();
}

Im sure this will help you out some way. Enjoy Dudes.

Once again "WHC_Grassy" Great work Man


OH yea almost forgot.
I LOVE MAPPING/SCRIPTING Heh Heh


edited on Jan. 24, 2006 01:32 am by ßŔ3NT

Thank you so much brent!

BR3NT -

If you would be so kind...
Could you find the time to slap together a 'sample' of this ?
Id love to dissect it and see how it works.

take a look Here

Hey Guys

Is there a way of changing the color of these lights. Ive tried all the Normal by pressing k and adding lines in the entities box. What I am after is to have a flashing green light that lights up the floor area

I can get a static green colored light on the floor but the lamp stays white and the shadow doesnt flash.


Thanks Jon

StrYdeR writes...

Try downloading the Dynamic Lights Sample Map from the link above in the StrYdeR's post. See how it was done. You might need to make your own FX.