Sprites Created 16 years ago2008-02-16 14:52:41 UTC by Skals

You see this? theres a sprite at that tower.
For some reason i cant see it in game. its turned on and stuff.

Is it because its too far away? and if thats the reason, how can i let it be seen from this distance. please help.

If it is "inside" a brush then you won't see it ingame. Make sure that the center origin of the sprite is not obstructed by brush geometry.

Oh... well it is.... but it has to be, to make the effect that i want

Edit: it still doesnt work. i took the sprite outside the building....

What are its properties?

Name: Blank
Pitch Yaw Roll (Y Z X): 0 0 0
Moves with: Blank
Render FX: Normal
Render mode: Glow
FX Amount(1-255): 255
FX Colour(R G B): 255 0 0
Frame rate: 10.0
Sprite Name: sprites/redglow.spr
Scale: 10
Attached to entity...: Blank
...At atachment point: 0

Flags:
Starts On: Ticked
Play Once: Unchecked

VisGroup:
(No groups)

Set render FX to glow or always glow.

Render Fx? Did you mix it with render mode?

Might be related to Flat-Life, actually. The Half-Life engine always renders sprites facing the same direction as the player, and as you're not facing the sprite in platform mode it's not showing up. Hm, I'll check it out in the code.

Yes chicken. Fix that. Now. Please

Edit: Chickenfist, theres also another problem. the game_texts dont work!!! (for somereason) please fix that.

That's weird :S Just tested one, and it worked. What's the properties?

Chiken: Nvm. multimanager didnt work properly. i got it with triger_once.

Muzz: . i did what you said. no result. surely its flat-life's problem

Edit: Every time i recompile my map it switches the sky... i want the sky to be the cliff one and in daylight. but i dont noe the name of it.

Oh boy, how did you get the sprite to show up in game?

I didnt. and it didnt. im still waiting for help rofl.

Ok. The first thing I would suggest would be to make sure that you don't but it inside brush geometry, like muzzelflash said. Leave it out for now then when we get the sprite to show up later inside brush geometry, we'll work on making it show while its not in brush geometry first.

Your sprite properties seem fine, so I'm going to suggest that this is a custom sprite and maybe it hasn't been made properly. Upload your map with that sprite into the twhl map vault and I'll take a look at it.

This may be helpful for your sky question http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1037472496-69804100