Flash Light -- Extremely tough question

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:40 pm

You can make any model glow with a light in QuakeC.

Is it possible to make a flashlight effect where there is no model receiving the glow effect in standard QuakeC?

Like a light glow somewhere with no model present?

MauveBib · Post by **MauveBib** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:02 pm

Sure, just make a blank sprite to be the model for the entity.

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:22 pm

MauveBib wrote:Sure, just make a blank sprite to be the model for the entity.

I was thinking of that option, but the mod in-progress doesn't require any model downloads and will be running on a server.

Are there any other workarounds that don't involve new models/sprites being utilized?

Post by **scar3crow** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:21 pm

In a mod of mine I simply took a setmodel line and removed the contents of the information saying which model, leaving just = ""; but kept the EF_BRIGHTLIGHT or whatnot, and I had a moving light source, with no model or sprite involved at all.

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:13 pm

scar3crow wrote:In a mod of mine I simply took a setmodel line and removed the contents of the information saying which model, leaving just = ""; but kept the EF_BRIGHTLIGHT or whatnot, and I had a moving light source, with no model or sprite involved at all.

If that works, that would be great.

You told me you weren't a coder at all, heh.

Sajt · Post by **Sajt** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:49 am

That won't work. It might in Darkplaces (not sure), or in single player (not sure). But entities with no model aren't sent over the network. You need to use a model. The best you can do is probably the nail (spike) model...

Post by **scar3crow** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:56 am

Baker - Im not =)

Sajt - Heh, this was done in singleplayer DarkPlaces!

Post by **FrikaC** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:51 am

That's in DP only, normal Quake and most other engines check if the model is blank, if so it's not sent. DP adds in an additional check: if the model is blank AND there are no effects, then it is not sent.

Single player never has anything to do with it, because SP is just multiplayer with maxplayers 1 and using a loopback buffer rather than a real network device.

Frame 1 of s_bubble.spr is pretty small...

IceDagger · Post by **IceDagger** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:32 am

Yeah, I've seen a flashlight tutorial somewhere that used that sprite model.