Dynamic Light

god damned hl is full of secrets

@Bruce

Yeah. Found this at some russian site. If I would know if I'm allowed to post here links to other web-sites I would credit it.
What's interesting is that the features like dynamic lighting, dynamic shadows and a lot of other cool stuff are the remains of the Alpha version of Half-Life.

Dynamic lights are a remnant of quake but its quite used like for explosions, rpg, flashlight. But i guess having too many of these dynlights is going to choke even a modern cpu

@Bruce

But HL Alpha had all this as well. If you want to see more stuff like that I can give you a link on that site. It's in russian but I can try to translate it for you. You can also find there some interesting info about info_node. It appears that there are different types for info_node, even some for the stukabat.

Nice little find, first time i am seeing this. I am thinking of a day/night cycle trickery when i'll actually fire up gs again. What about the dynamic shadows? Better yet, where'd you get this from?

@Kachito

Where did I get this? Here you go: http://ralertmod.narod.ru
I hope you know russian well. Though I can help you with translating it.
Dynamic Shadows is something GS can't handle. Though, HL Alpha had dynamic shadows from monsters.

Impressive.

Though, is it just me or the light flickers?

It does, but dude... It's DYNAMIC! There are so many usages for it, even though it flickers. You can use it to make a swinging lightbulb for example. You just need a proper entity setup. Func_pendulum won't work though, for many reasons.

I'm an amx pawn scripter and can do it another way, giving an entity flashlight and customizing some of its properties xd. Though, this is impressive, thanks for sharing.

@EsprimoP

You should also thank the guys from this site: ralertmod.narod.ru.
I shared it with you all here because it looks like that site is dead, but who knows...

HL probably has a whole lot more of things left unexplored and hidden away.

Whats smart edit?

@stertyr

In Hammer-like editors (Hammer, Sledge, Jackhammer aka J.A.C.K., etc.), SmartEdit is a feature that replaces internal keyvalue names with more readable and comprehensible ones if there are any listed in the loaded fgd file. It also enables dropdown lists or color pickers on some keyvalues so you don't have to set the values by hand. But it's fgd-dependent too.

The point in turning SmartEdit off is that with it turned on you can't add custom keyvalues and can only edit the ones predefined in the fgd file. The "effects" key isn't listed in most fgds (or likely none at all), so you either have to add it by hand with SmartEdit off or add the key to your fgd file, making it appear in the entity's properties as you want it to with SmartEdit enabled.

@Windawz

Thank you for explaining. I am using Quake Army Knife for mapping. I guess I just need to add effects at specific.
How to increase brightness radius of this entity? I tried almost every parameter. Only speed is working.

@stertyr

You probably can. It's a hacky setup and the keyvalue is used for some other internal purpose by the game most likely. You can experiment and try changing the value of the key to some other numbers. I recall that you can also get the yellow particles appear around the entity (usually you see them if a monster is stuck) or get a huge version of the dlight instead. Also you can get combinations of these effects, but I don't remember the exact values. I remember though that they loop at some point, so entering some huge number could give you the same result as entering something very small.