moving dynamic lights

Deamonic · Post by **Deamonic** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:56

okay. so ive come up to a part in my map where there is a crapload of machinery working, and one of them is just like a looping sector behind a transparent wall (glass) and its meant to have dynamic lights moving around it.(for no darn reason. just to look pretty, i guess) how would i do this?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:06

In your case I think the easiest way is to place some invisible things in the scrolling sector and assign lights to them.

But keep in mind that moving dynamic lights are a lot more costly than non-moving ones. Larger amounts may cause slowdowns.

Deamonic · Post by **Deamonic** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:47

okay. but... how do i assign dynamic lights? do i have to do this in the
doom light definitions lump or is it possible some other way? (FS, i think, has a setcorona function, but not sure if this could be used for dynamic lights)

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:51

Of course you need the light definition lump. That's what it is there for. And best forget about setcorona. I still haven't implemented it. The way Legacy did that it's an awful hack at best.

Deamonic · Post by **Deamonic** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 13:06

problem is: im using more than one color (ill be using blue and green) and i really dont want to sacrifice two things to use as lights. can i make a thing in DECORATE and define a light for it?

EDIT: DUH. thats how the NJFlare worked.

i just dont know how to define light to a decorate object.

Post by **Enjay** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:29

Deamonic wrote:i just dont know how to define light to a decorate object.

Exactly the same way that you do for a non-decorate object. In DOOMDEFS/GLDEFS you define the light type, identify the actor and say which sprite numbers you want to use it.

Deamonic · Post by **Deamonic** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:21

i dissected a wad to find out last night and was too tired to get back on and edit saying i did.
now i gotta learn decorate.

EDIT: Ive been trying for a while now to make a crona decorate thing but havent been able to succeed (its always the missing sprite image) so eventually i gave up on that and made it invisible, then tried adding a light to it. the light didnt show up.
i just gave up and tried invisible candles and they dont even move on the scrolling sector.
i need help.