u have to do a full compile to see the effects, and i think the higher the dynamic lights setting, the better

I was having the same problem so I made this little efx file. It's not great but it does the job i needed.

Particle
{
	name				lensflare

	flags				usePhysics relative

	spawnFlags			evenDistribution frustumCull

	count				10

	life				600

	delay				0 600

	spawnRange			0 3000

	spawnFrustumCullRadius	100.000000

	rgb
	{
		curve
		[
			0 1 1 1
			0.9741 0.712 0.6597 0.1099
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	rgbRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 1 1 1
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	alpha
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			0.1609 0.1485 0 0
			0.5 0.2327 0 0
			0.8305 0.1436 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	alphaRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 1 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	size
	{
		curve
		[
			0 1 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]

		scale			50
	}

	sizeRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 1 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	size2
	{
		curve
		[
			0 1 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	size2Rand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 1 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	length
	{
		curve
		[
			0 1 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	lengthRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 1 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	rotationDelta
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	rotationDeltaRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocityX
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocityY
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocityZ
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocityXRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocityYRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocityZRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocity2X
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocity2Y
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocity2Z
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocity2XRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocity2YRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	velocity2ZRand
	{
		curve
		[
			0 0 0 0
			1 0 0 0
		]
	}

	shaders
	[
		gfx_spotlight_lensflare
	]
}

Just paste this code into notepad and save it to your main/fx/misc/ folder as corona.efx

then in yourmap_fx.gsc put this in precacheFX():

	level._effect["corona"]			= loadfx ("fx/misc/corona.efx");

and in ambientFX() put this:

	maps\mp\_fx::loopfx("corona", (x, y, z), 0.2);

replacing x, y, z with the coordinates where you want the corona. Hope this helps. :)

edited on Oct. 14, 2006 09:26 pm by sharkeh

Nice one! I'll give that a try.

Its looks pretty good, but is it possible to get rid of the glowing centre, just leaving the outer rings? Otherwise its great :D

To reduce the glow just look at the top section of the file and where it says:

	count				10

play about with lowering that value until you get the result you want.