Swinging lights

Well... I'm working on getting a tutorial for swinging lights up.

Essentially, you need to assign a model to a light source, and make it a projected light. To make it actually swing, it needs to be bound to a joint.

Sometime soon I'll post up a tutorial on how to use them.

STAY TUNED... [cue horror music]

I did a little research on admin.map to take a look at what makes the swinging lights work. I copied the values and to the best of my ability described what they could do, and I wrote it down in Notepad. So, please excuse formatting errors.


classname light
name <name>
origin <world coords> \ Set through 'j'
light_origin <light coords> /
rotation <direction>
model <model path>
target <target>
broken <model path for broken model>
bind <this is bound to a physical object>
bindToJoint <bone name>
s_shader <specify shader>
health <when health is 0, light is destroyed>
s_volume <unsure>
target/1 <when "triggered" active target>
color_demonic <more shader crap that isn't necessary ATM>
s_mindistance <unsure>
s_maxdistance <unsure>
s_omni <unsure>
s_occlusion <unsure>
s_waitfortrigger<unsure>
s_leadthrough <unsure>
s_plain <unsure>
s_justVolume <unsure>
noshadows <boolean - 0 casts shadow volumes, 1 doesn't>
nospecular <boolean - 0 casts specular highlights, 1 doesn't>
nodiffuse <boolean - 0 means cast diffuse, 1 doesn't>
texture <set through light menu [specifies type of light and special effects]>
_color <set through light menu or 'k'>
light_radius <set through light menu>
light_center <set through light menu>
cinematic <boolean - unsure>

I'm still working on that tutorial, it should be up within the next few days. In the meantime, you can look at the above chart and perhaps ascertain the meanings yourself.

There is already one on the doom3world.org forums.

Go check it out - havent tried it yet, but it seems pretty simple to me.

I don't see it.

Forgot to mention the doom3world FORUMS, sorry.

Anyways, here is the thread.

Hope this helps! :)

http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3366

Thanks! :D

I was having trouble getting the object to turn to physics.

Could someone delete this thread?

Laguna said:

Thanks! :D

I was having trouble getting the object to turn to physics.

Could someone delete this thread?

No prob ;)

You should check around on doom3world.org often. Their forums mainly, though, as in the DOOM 3 LEVEL EDITING forum, they have some AWESOME help and tutorials.

One of the best DOOM 3 editing forums in my opinion. Fast replies too, since tons of people flock there for some reason. :)