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Category:	HL2 Mapping Half-Life 2 Single Player, Deathmath, Orange Box, etc. mapping and level design.
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Topic: Spotlight follow a brush ?

elemenz

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Category: HL2 Mapping Posted: Monday, May. 7, 2007 05:15 pm
How do I make a spotlight follow a invisible trian brush ? I got a guard light on a tower that's supposed to move around the yard..... shebby ?
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Category: HL2 Mapping Posted: Monday, May. 7, 2007 05:33 pm
to follow an invisible brush? that will take coding a mod. What you want to do is parent the whole thing to a func_rotating.
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Category: HL2 Mapping Posted: Monday, May. 7, 2007 05:39 pm
I mean the spotlight BEAM.....not the entire light. like, a tower with a sticky static lamp, having a spotlight shooting beam down on the yard. That's easy, but you know... move the end point around, as if a guy is scouting/ scanning the area ? I made a train (nodraw), named it and told the spotlight to aim/target at that train brush. The brush moves around fine, but the light beam wont update, it keeps pointing at the same spot... Even tried dynamic light... :(
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Category: HL2 Mapping Posted: Monday, May. 7, 2007 05:50 pm
(I am hopefully not confusing this with quake 4) You should be able to aim a spotlight at a null. So then try to parent the null to the train and then the spotlight will follow? I don't know if it will follow, just an idea while I am at work.
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Category: HL2 Mapping Posted: Tuesday, May. 8, 2007 05:28 pm
didnt work for me... I try a low spotlight without the glowing halo with parent being the train, and set the angles of the beam real large.... that could give the illusion of the desired effect :D edited on May. 8, 2007 01:30 pm by elemenz
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