What are you working on?

[jim]

Sounds interesting. Maybe add some more stuff into the rooms above the cellar, look so empty.

[GiffE]

You can achieve a much nicer looking flashlight in DP using cubemaps.
viewtopic.php?t=820&highlight=flashlight

The .skin float tells which cubemap to use, so 200 will need: cubemaps/200px.tga

In that file it should be entirely black then put a white spot in the middle. The white spot will be the flashlight.

[ajay]

Cheers GiffE, have implemented. Its definitely smoother. Just tinkering with brightness, which is easy

cont: I've settled on 256 which makes things remain spooky . Before I spend too long tinkering, failing, spotting an obvious mistake, tinkering some more, then eventually failing - is it theoretically possible to dynamically adjust the brightness, e.g. could I simulate failing batteries?

[GiffE]

newflashlight.light_lev = 1024;
not working?

[Urre]

ajay: sure, just add some code which alters the light_lev of that light.

[ajay]

Excellent, I'll get on it; it will be a nice gameplay feature to have your torch fading and eventually going out, while you have to search for batteries.

[ajay]

So, is this how to do it:
- change this line

newflashlight.light_lev = 1024;

to

newflashlight.light_lev = battery;

battery having a starting value of 512 (prob)
- then for every 120 of time, battery is reduced by 50
- it'll be increased to 512 when obtaining a battery pick up

it'll not be particularly realtime accurate, although i guess i can tinker with as i develop the game

[Chris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzqzp43ojz8

choppy towards end, may have better video later with more in it.

[MeTcHsteekle]

looks cool, i like the viciousness of the mutant zombie things

[CocoT]

Yeah, that looks very nice, Chris!

[Chris]

[ajay]

Sort of got my torch battery working. I haven't been able to get ti fading over time, bt I have got it 'running out', which is preventable if turned off, you know like a proper battery like!
Simple for some, but well tricky for me! All I got to do is now have a battery pick up to boost it, which should be simple, and have it have its own parm, to carry it thru' levels. Marvellous!

[jim]

This inventory looks good. I watched the video too. I liked.

[GiffE]

That looks excellent Chris. What does the cone do

[avirox]

So, is this how to do it:
- change this line

newflashlight.light_lev = 1024;

to

newflashlight.light_lev = battery;

battery having a starting value of 512 (prob)
- then for every 120 of time, battery is reduced by 50
- it'll be increased to 512 when obtaining a battery pick up

it'll not be particularly realtime accurate, although i guess i can tinker with as i develop the game

Cool, something like that may work nicely with QuakeLife. For some reason I've been putting off coding in a flashlight which is quite odd given that it's a mod with half-life in mind. Unfortunately I don't exactly have DP at my disposal, as the HLBSP support is somewhat broken now. Some day though if LH fixes it up a better flashlight can be constructed in QC than valve's own code, I'm sure!