Making a small LED type light. Created 18 years ago2005-05-24 16:27:21 UTC by Zat_AJ

Hi. I was just wondering how I could make a small red light that only lights up like an LED.

I don't want it to give off light, I just want it to light up. Whenever I make a red light, you can't acualy see the light bulb itself, you only see the light it gives off.

I read the light totorial but I don't see any similar situations. Thanks again for your help.

use one of the flare sprites, you've got 5 choices, go crazy

You could also use swithchable animating textures, distinguished by having +A in front of their name.

Make the off texture a dull grey--+0, I think--and the on texture a nice, bright red.

Is there a tutorial on how to make textures change?

Don't think so, and nor is there a need to. Look at the already-existing ones ? there are some buttons in HL, for example.

Just use a switchable texture in combination with a sprite.

Ok... but how do I "switch" the texture?

just put it on the brush and turn the btush into a func_wall. when the func_wall is triggerd it will change it's texture. The switch able textures all have a + before them!!!

Ahh... ok thankyou. I will try that now.

Wasn?t also possible to make a func_wall brush that was always lit and you could see in the dark?. Sort of the func_water thing... I need to map a little for HL again. Doom limits are making me think simpler XD!.

it might not work with a func_wall. and a func_wall will only be visible from a cirtain angle. make a sprite(grey not red). put it into hammer and have it start off. and make sure its set to render as an additive with a render amount to make it semi-trasparent and a color to make it red.

I used func_wall and it was visable from all angles but also add a red glow!!

You could easily do it with just the sprite, if it's something the player will see as a detail and not a really important map bit.

Yeah, I just used I sprite, I guess I didn't think of that. Thanks for your help.