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UPDATE

ok, ive sort have fixed the problem! (huge gasp goes round the room)

After hours of mucking round with property settings, I found that when I set the light's Custom Appearance to "blank" the light stopped flickering. So it seems when Custom Appearance is set to "normal" and the light is connected to a switch, it goes crazy. Anyone know why this would happen?

Weird, but at least its kinda fixed now . Thank to everyone who assisted me.

I'm sure it wont be to long before I'll have another problem for u guys to solve, so hang in there! I'll be back!

thanks Marl, I installed ZHLT and compiling is much better, unfortunately it didn't solve my problem. And since i only have 3 lights on the entire map it can't be the "max 4 light thing" either

However, after heaps of testing (changing settings and compliling) I've worked out it's to do with the func_button the light is controlled by, because the light only goes crazy only when they are connected. So I reckon one of my switch settings is wrong, see switch properties below.

func_button:

CLASS INFO
Name: Ltroom_switch
Target: Ltroom_light
Render FX: normal
Render Mode: normal
FX amount: 0
FX Color: 0 0 0
Pitch Yaw Roll: 0 0 0
Speed: 5
Health: 0
Lip: 0
master: blank
sounds: lightswitch
delay before reset: 1
delay before trigger: 0
the rest: none

FLAGS
Don't move, toggle

Otherwise, im lost . I'll upload my map as Marl said if someone can't find the problem in the properties above. Once again, thanks for any help you can give me. I appreciate it!

thanks but the light appearance is already set to normal.

but i noticed another strange effect. When both the lamps and this anoying light are switched on, the region on the wall where light from both entities mix, a strangle, yellow-black flicker occurs.

Weird, eh?

ok, I use Normal Compile mode with:

CGS: Normal
BSP: Normal
VIS: No (but have tried on Normal and still have the same problem)
RAD: Normal (tried on extra but still have the same problem)
And the two boxes are not ticked

Here is whats in the process window..
** Executing...
** Command: Change Directory
** Parameters: C:HALFLIFE

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "C:HALFLIFEEvilmapsmissiontoLongTanTRIAL.map" "C:HALFLIFEEvilmapsmissiontoLongTanTRIAL.map"

** Executing...
** Command: C:Program FilesWorldcraftqcsg.exe
** Parameters: "C:HALFLIFEEvilmapsmissiontoLongTanTRIAL"

qcsg.exe v2.8 (Jan 31 2000)
-- qcsg --
entering C:HALFLIFEEvilmapsmissiontoLongTanTRIAL.map
CreateBrush: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (0)
CSGBrush: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (1)
Using WAD File: halflifeevilcached.wad
Using WAD File: halflifeevildecals.wad
Using WAD File: halflifeevilgfx.wad
Using WAD File: halflifeevilnam.wad
Using WAD File: halflifevalvehalflife.wad
Using WAD File: halflifevalveliquids.wad
Using WAD File: halflifevalveres.wad
Using WAD File: halflifevalvexeno.wad
added 8 additional animating textures.

2 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: C:Program FilesWorldcraftqbsp2.exe
** Parameters: "C:HALFLIFEEvilmapsmissiontoLongTanTRIAL"

qbsp2.exe v2.2 (Dec 28 1998)
-- qbsp2 --
writing C:HALFLIFEEvilmapsmissiontoLongTanTRIAL.prt

1 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: C:Program FilesWorldcraftqrad.exe
** Parameters: "C:HALFLIFEEvilmapsmissiontoLongTanTRIAL"

qrad.exe v 1.5 (Apr 6 2000)
--- Radiosity --
1 threads
[Reading texlights from 'C:PROGRAM FILESWORLDCRAFTlights.rad']
[1 texlights parsed from 'C:PROGRAM FILESWORLDCRAFTlights.rad']

No vis information, direct lighting only.
1354 faces
118532 square feet [17068660.00 square inches]
6759 patches after subdivision
4 direct lights
BuildFacelights: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (2)
FinalLightFace: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9... (0)

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness
---------- ------------- ------------- ------
models 8/400 512/25600 ( 2.0)
planes 1996/32767 39920/655340 ( 6.1)
vertexes 1879/65535 22548/786420 ( 2.9)
nodes 637/32767 15288/786408 ( 1.9)
texinfos 274/8192 10960/327680 ( 3.3)
faces 1354/65535 27080/1310700 ( 2.1)
clipnodes 1152/32767 9216/262136 ( 3.5)
leaves 406/8192 11368/229376 ( 5.0)
marksurfaces 1765/65535 3530/131070 ( 2.7)
surfedges 6442/512000 25768/2048000 ( 1.3)
edges 3258/256000 13032/1024000 ( 1.3)
texdata [variable] 1984/2097152 ( 0.1)
lightdata [variable] 301932/2097152 (14.4)
visdata [variable] 0/2097152 ( 0.0)
entdata [variable] 2506/131072 ( 1.9)

Total BSP file data space used: 485644 bytes

2 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: C:HALFLIFEhl.exe
** Parameters: -game evil -dev -console +map "missiontoLongTanTRIAL"

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ok, another problem

The switch works fine now, but the light flickers heaps when its on. It seems to go through a rapid cycle of off, bright, brighter, brightest all in less than a second. All the settings are as above in my first post.

I tried deleting and installing another light but the same thing happened.

I have 2 other lights in the same room (desk lamps) which work perfectly fine themselves but maybe they are affecting it somehow. i really have no idea.

Thanks in advance for any help

ohhhhhhhhh
ok i feel stupid now...

but thanks heaps for your help! I thought delay before reset ment how long before the switch reverted back to its original position!

well, i'll learn from my mistakes...

now back to mapping

hi, i've just started on my first map ever and im already having trouble with a few "simple" things.

I've made a room with a light, which is switched on by a switch on the wall (func_button). I'm pretty sure ive set all the entity properties right but when i compile and test I have 2 problems:

1) The switch can turn the light on once but not off
2) The light entity (which i admit i don't know much about) simply creates a spotlight on the wall near the switch, not lighting the whole room.

Here are the list of properties I have set the entities:

func_button:
CLASS INFO
Name: Ltroom_switch
Target: Ltroom_light
Render FX: normal
Render Mode: normal
FX amount: 0
FX Color: 0 0 0
Pitch Yaw Roll: 0 0 0
Speed: 5
Health: 0
Lip: 0
master: blank
sounds: lightswitch
delay before reset: -1
delay before trigger: 0
the rest: none

FLAGS
Don't move, toggle

light
CLASS INFO
Name: Ltroom_light
Target: Ltroom_switch
Brightness: 255 255 159 200
Appearance: Normal
Custom Appearance: blank

FLAGS
Intially dark

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I suspect this has a simple explanation, so plz don't ridicule me for being so stupid