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Lights inside a building

Cees Donker

Cees Donker

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I have a problem that must be easy to solve, but I can't figure it out on my own! I built a small hangar that I want to be lit at night, only on the inside. How do I do this? Is there a good tutorial in which this is explained in detail?
Any help would be very much appreciated!

:scratchch

Cees
 
I would suggest using effects then to light the inside of the hangar. Then put conditions on them in the condition box like,

NIGHT=1
That way it will only work during the night time hours.



or if you read the Effects SDK you can put in certain hours of operation.

Brian
 
yes,

I would look around the forums for the various effects. I use my own for the footprint of the light inside buildings, but I like the fx_strahler.fx light that is somewhere here on the forums as the light bulb on big lights, or just use a self-illuminated material by calling it BRIGHT_xxx in the material name and it will glow. So, use BRIGHT_xxx or use an effect for the bulb....use an effect for the foot print...then make the effect conditional so it is only on at night and it looks great. Also make good use of texturename_LM lightmap files to add glow to windows.
 
There is a much simpler way to do lighted interior at night using textures only. Take a look on attached image to get an idea. Windows are cut using alpha channel.
 

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