Swinging light Rope
I have made a swinging light and everything works fine except the rope doesn't show up.. How do I fix this?
Is there a red/green line between your move_rope and keyframe_rope in hammer? If not, it means your move_rope isn't pointing to the right place.
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How do I point it to something?
Place a keyframe_rope entity by the lamp. Set the keyvalue "Next KeyFrame" in the move_rope to the keyframe_rope.
A swinging light? A DYNAMIC swinging light?
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God, hope your framerates are still playable.
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God, hope your framerates are still playable.
One dynamic light in a level is still playable, unless its lighting an uterly complicated structure and you're playing with a GeForce 4, there's nothing to worry about.
It's not a dynamic light, it's a point_spotlight parented to the lamp.
But it swings, so the light changes position, so the lightmap can't be precalculated in hammer and must be calculated while playing. That makes it dynamical. You don't need a light_dynamic just for it to be dynamic. Once you named a light, it is dynamic. Once a light changes position, or it fades in and out, or it flickers, or whatever that doesn't make it static, it's a dynamic light and it will be calculated in-game, resulting in lower framerates as the source engine isn't the best engine for dynamic lightning. If you have a light that remains on one position but changes its luminosity, while compiling only the brightest and the darkest lightmaps will be created, all the others will be in-game.
Okay, I have to admit, a few dynamic lights in a map don't really have an impact on playability, but much further than a few you shouldn't go.
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According to the Valve Developer Wiki, a point_spotlight IS a light_dynamic with some added sprite effects.
Also from the wiki:
So it is not always a dynamic light.
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