Sprites Failing to Appear Created 17 years ago2006-12-18 00:18:59 UTC by RotatorSplint

I'm making a little light fixture, so naturaly, I'd want to use a sprite to give it a little more depth.Saddly, however, the sprite is failing to appear:All settings are set properly: Render mode set to "World Space Glow", Amount set to 200, etc and so forth. The "Starts On" flag is checked. I have also tried moving the sprite out of the model's grometry to no avail.

Help!

check the console. If it displays a message similar to
"tried to make world space glow out of non-sprite model" or something like that, then the sprite you have chosen doesnt work with the set-up.

What sprite is it? (As in what .spr or .vmt is it called)

Sorry it took me so long to reply

It is called "sprite/glow01" and "sprite/glow03". I have no non-existant sprite errors in the console. I think we can pretty much rule out the possibility of it not being a sprite

Just so you know: That sprite, glow01, is the default sprite that is used when the entity is created.

I have this error as well when using sprites for glows. I only managed to do this effect by using env_lightglow.

Hmm.. Could it be a patch of some kind that's doing this?

EDIT: Oh, look at what I just found in the console:

Setting CSprite to non-sprite model sprites/glow01

It was higher up in the console's pile of entries that were made when I started the level, so I never saw them at first.

Funny thing is that... these ARE sprite models... :

EDIT again: Horray! I figured out the problem! It won't recognize the texture as a sprite unless you append ".spr" to the end of it's name in the "Sprite Texture Name" field.