Is it able to make a real flashlight in JK(like in Half Life, Doom 3.....)

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Do you mean like it doesn't shine 360 degrees around like a lightbulb--just a 60 degree (or so) arc/cone in front of you?

That could probably be done; what I would do is fire a stream of light templates in front of me until it hits a wall or is out of a reasonable range. Probably not perfect, but it should work pretty well.

It should look like a real, that only a circle is visible....

I've done the method Darth Slaw is describing. It works ok...but since JK uses vertex lighting, its less than perfect. If you point at the center of a large surface, the light will hit but little to nothing will happen because it really only has an effect on verticies.

Now isn't there a surface flag that anything seen through a surface is fully lit? I do remember SOMETHING along those lines. Couldn't a beam of texture provide a flashlight of sorts?

JediKirby

and in MotS

Here's what I'm planning on doing for LoG03:

I'm firing a stream of ghosts whose class cogs increment their thing light, so as they fly out they get brighter the farther they go. This creates a 'cone of light' effect, which should give you maximum realism. I'm overcoming the vertex issue by onjly giving the player the flashlight in a vertex heavy dungeon.

Thats a pretty cool idea...and it should really come up with a neat effect. But wouldn't dumping tons of ghosts like that cause the thing limit to be hit pretty fast if you pointed the flashlight over a long distance?

I guess you could limit the max distance to avoid having it get to out of hand though.

You can set it so that projectiles die after a certain range, I believe.