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Custom Appearance Strings
If you want to use flickering light entities, but also want to use an appearance that is not listed in the
Appearance key, you may make use of the
Custom Appearance key. This will allow you to create your own light appearance through the use of alphabetic characters.
a is completely black,
z is completely white, and the rest of the letters create a smooth gradient.
Should you wish to map out your custom appearance with an image editor, enter your light's RGB value, and then adjust the colors
luminescence
to each letter's corresponding value (as follows).
a 0b 9c 19d 28e 38f 48g 57h 67i 76j 86k 96l 105m 115n 124o 134p 144q 153r 163s 172t 182u 192v 201w 211x 220y 230z 240
Preset Appearances
The following preset appearances are in order of their SmartEdit appearance, and are prefixed by their corresponding keyvalue.
0 Normal
(view) (Link: normal.gif)m10 Fluorescent flicker
(view) (Link: fluorescent.gif)mmamammmmammamamaaamammma2 Slow, strong pulse
(view) (Link: slowstrong.gif)abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba11 Slow pulse, noblack
(view) (Link: noblack.gif)abcdefghijklmnopqrrqponmlkjihgfedcba5 Gentle pulse
(view) (Link: gentle.gif)jklmnopqrstuvwxyzyxwvutsrqponmlkj1 Flicker A
(view) (Link: flickera.gif)mmnmmommommnonmmonqnmmo6 Flicker B
(view) (Link: flickerb.gif)nmonqnmomnmomomno3 Candle A
(view) (Link: candlea.gif)mmmmmaaaaammmmmaaaaaabcdefgabcdefg7 Candle B
(view) (Link: candleb.gif)mmmaaaabcdefgmmmmaaaammmaamm8 Candle C
(view) (Link: candlec.gif)mmmaaammmaaammmabcdefaaaammmmabcdefmmmaaaa4 Fast strobe
(view) (Link: faststrobe.gif)mamamamamama9 Slow Strobe
(view) (Link: slowstrobe.gif)aaaaaaaazzzzzzzz
Resources
A zip file of the above animations is available
here (Link: hl_lightstyles.zip) .
This nifty
palette (Link: custlight_az.pal) file has the
a - z shades, should you require them.
For animating custom light strings, click
here (Link: index.htm) for the ever-handy
Light Generator shockwave (Link: ) tool written by
koekjesbaby (Link: ) . Download your own copy of the light generator
here (Link: lightgenerator.zip) .
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