I would like to put flares in my map just to add to the mood of it, but I can't seam to be able to figure out how to put them in there, Any help?

I'm pretty sure you add the line Light 1 to your shader.

Quote (MMFSdjw @ June 08 2004, 12:32 pm)

I'm pretty sure you add the line Light 1 to your shader.

This is built-in flare... Nothing amazing.

surfaceparm sprite (Need to check which one)
may help you more...

Make your flare and add the line "deformVertexes autosprite2" to the general keywords in your shader.

Thanks guys, problem is, I'm a novice to scripting, All I know is the concept behind shaders. So even though I understand what it is your telling me, I don't know what to do with it. And I don't think it's something I can learn overnight.

do you have your shader already?
if so, post it and someone will show you where to put the stuff.

no, I don't.

If you have the EF expansion pack, one of the MP maps, ctf_singularity has flares.

If you look in the scripts/new_effects.shader file in the pak3.pk3 file (Assuming u have the XP ;) ), you can see the shader code for the flares.

To actually get it working on a map ingame, here's what you can do (Kudos to Stukatto for teaching me this many years ago! )

Create a brush that is long and wide enough to fit the flare texture.  Assign the nodraw texture to it, and then to one of the sides, replace the nodraw texture with the flare texture.

Normally I've found it's good habit to have the flare texture placed on the top side of the brush, so it can be positioned easily.

Then after u've compiled it, and had a look ingame, u should see a normal flare.

Failing that, here's a tutorial on adding lens flares to maps in Q3.  The fundamentals are similar enough so that it would also work with EF

http://www.planetquake.com/qworkshop3/tutorials/flares/index.html

Hope that helped!

-TiM

Thanks!

Thanks!