QuakeC awareness of lighting?

[Baker]

Can QuakeC ... even if it requires some DP or FTE extension .. be aware of the lighting level that, say, a player is in?

Theoretical uses:

1. solar-powered armor or something that doesn't recharge in lower light levels.

2. A true ring of shadows where the player is totally invisible to monsters/other players if the player is in a sufficiently "dark place".

I'm assuming the answer is no, but my QuakeC knowledge is still rather limited.

[Downsider]

Two ways, at least that I can think of.

Without any sort of engine code, you can search for any light entities within a certain radius. Not very good, I dunno.

Maybe you can refine that by checking if there are any walls in the way, thus detecting "shadows" to an extent.

Other way is a bit more obvious and just uses DarkPlace's getlight function.

[Urre]

There's an extension for this in dpextensions.qc

[Baker]

There's an extension for this in dpextensions.qc

Thanks!