DRD Team

okay. so ive come up to a part in my map where there is a crapload of machinery working, and one of them is just like a looping sector behind a transparent wall (glass) and its meant to have dynamic lights moving around it.(for no darn reason. just to look pretty, i guess) how would i do this?

In your case I think the easiest way is to place some invisible things in the scrolling sector and assign lights to them.

But keep in mind that moving dynamic lights are a lot more costly than non-moving ones. Larger amounts may cause slowdowns.

okay. but... how do i assign dynamic lights? do i have to do this in the
doom light definitions lump or is it possible some other way? (FS, i think, has a setcorona function, but not sure if this could be used for dynamic lights)

Of course you need the light definition lump. That's what it is there for. And best forget about setcorona. I still haven't implemented it. The way Legacy did that it's an awful hack at best.

problem is: im using more than one color (ill be using blue and green) and i really dont want to sacrifice two things to use as lights. can i make a thing in DECORATE and define a light for it?

EDIT: DUH. thats how the NJFlare worked.

i just dont know how to define light to a decorate object.

Deamonic wrote:i just dont know how to define light to a decorate object.

Exactly the same way that you do for a non-decorate object. In DOOMDEFS/GLDEFS you define the light type, identify the actor and say which sprite numbers you want to use it.

i dissected a wad to find out last night and was too tired to get back on and edit saying i did.
now i gotta learn decorate.

EDIT: Ive been trying for a while now to make a crona decorate thing but havent been able to succeed (its always the missing sprite image) so eventually i gave up on that and made it invisible, then tried adding a light to it. the light didnt show up.
i just gave up and tried invisible candles and they dont even move on the scrolling sector.
i need help.