How to set frequency of glowing/flickering spotlights?

[Tormentor667]

The angle doesn't work for a reason, so how can I set the speed of the flickering and glowing for the spotlights? Didn't find a wiki entry.

[AFADoomer]

It looks like this may need to be a feature suggestion (or does this count as a bug? It never worked, so...).

Internally, the flicker frequency is controlled by the 'specialf1' variable; all dynamic lights (including spotlights) automatically have their 'specialf1' variable initialized with the actor's normalized angle in their BeginPlay call. Obviously this isn't a valid solution for spotlights, since they are directional.

Something like this in ZScript works right now as a workaround:

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class SpotlightFlickerAbjustable : SpotlightFlicker replaces SpotlightFlicker
{
	int user_frequency;

	override void PostBeginPlay()
	{
		Super.PostBeginPlay();

		specialf1 = user_frequency;
	}
}

You can set the 'user_frequency' variable via UDMF, and it will affect the spotlight's flicker frequency on spawn... But an engine-side change to add another dynamic light actor property and/or variable for frequency that would override angle if set on any dynlight would probably be better.

I can add something like this this to BoA if you want... Just know that we may want to go back and replace them all in the future.

[Tormentor667]

Well, I guess it makes more sense to have this engine-side added