How do you set up an entity, say, a player, to glow similar to the way dynamite gives off a glow? I need this server-side. I see a few functions for dlights, but I haven’t a clue how to use them, especially on a player. I have tried using ent->constantlight (or something similiar, not sitting in front of the code right now) without any luck, though I might have used it incorrectly.
Thanks.
I’m on the right track. If I set ent->s.constantLight = color value, the glow will turn on ONLY after you die. I guess I now need to know how to make it take immediate effect?
hmm… cool for making a religious mod 
kinda “walk towards the light, go ahead, walk!”
Heh yeah, just another shrub feature I wanted to implement. Still can’t figure out how to make the constantlight take effect…
it cant glow similar way like dynamite cos dynamite light is clientside , but how about spawning some dlight entity with these players ?
Thought I’d revive an old thread.
I am still having issues getting glow to work, but I’m close. In ps2es and ps2esextrapolate, if I manually set s->constantLight to a valid value, players will glow whatever color I gave them. The problem I’m having is getting that to work from the game code. Perhaps it’s my lack of understanding the relationship between game and cgame player states, but I cannot seem to assign a value somewhere in game code and manage to get that value to the entitystate in cgame.
Essentially, I need to get entitystate->contantLight set to a value from game, but cannot figure out what mechanism I need to do so. Any suggestions?
um if u were using your constant light thing like you were, that really cannot work because u need a clientmod for that also, as it uses the dlight trap on the client and they prolly wont see it. you could try the dynamite without the pulsing thing though.
in InitMoverRotate you will find:
// if the "color" or "light" keys are set, setup constantLight
lightSet = G_SpawnFloat( "light", "100", &light );
colorSet = G_SpawnVector( "color", "1 1 1", color );
if ( lightSet || colorSet ) {
int r, g, b, i;
r = color[0] * 255;
if ( r > 255 ) {
r = 255;
}
g = color[1] * 255;
if ( g > 255 ) {
g = 255;
}
b = color[2] * 255;
if ( b > 255 ) {
b = 255;
}
i = light / 4;
if ( i > 255 ) {
i = 255;
}
ent->s.constantLight = r | ( g << 8 ) | ( b << 16 ) | ( i << 24 );
}
I guess I could rig it up in the client, but it is possible without a client mod (though I do have client side stuff). Look at Shrub, for example. As long as I can get the value to ps2es, the constantlights work correctly. But how to get it there is the question.
can’t you use some ps thing ( i guess that int holding or something like that ) and then convert it in ps2es ?
I’ve tried with no luck. In clientspawn, I set ent->client->ps.holding = (255 << 8) + (255 << 24), which should give a rather large bright green glow, but it never seems to work, unless I manually assign that value in ps2es. Something’s getting lost on its way to that function.
Any news on this? I’m trying to do a similar thing, but the glow doesn’t appear at all. :disgust:
I’d suggest once getting this working to get a mapper to create a VERY dark map, for some nice old glow in the dark pwnage \o/
Alright, but have you got it working? FAKK2’s got a script command that makes any entity shine a dynamic light, I traced it all the way back from it in the source and applied the same method in ET, but it doesn’t seem to work…
Nope, I’m just missing one piece of the puzzle here: how to get an assigned value from game code to es->constantLight in cgame. If someone could enlighten me as such, I would be done.
No , it will not work , because ET DL system doesnt lit really dark areas , and goldrush is IMO light…
I said it already that ET dlights are weird , didnt I ?
yes jaq we know that only already lit places can glow with dlights… the only thing u could do maybe but i doubt it is to hack in a actual “light” entity… not even sure if the game would even be able to use it.