SpotLight Doc?

[Logan MTM]

Hi everyone!

Where can i find documentation of SpotLights?

Thank you all!

[Kappes Buur]

For documentation do a search for Spotlight.
Support for dynamic spotlights is only available in GZDBBF and UDB,




But setting the colour of inner and outer angles can be tricky:
forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=68084&p=1160930
etc

[Logan MTM]

Thank you.
Interesting, I'm getting the exact same problem. I just want change the spotlight color via ACS.
The spotlight color always turn red. I don't get how Jaska solve this problem anyway
#PM hin

[AFADoomer]

To change the color in-game, try using the first three args as R, G, B, like you would any other dynamic light.

Basically, the spotlight's arguments get shuffled around and rewritten when it actually spawns in the game. The inner and outer angles are stored in internal variables, and the first three arguments become the RGB color values.

[Logan MTM]

To change the color in-game, try using the first three args as R, G, B, like you would any other dynamic light.

Basically, the spotlight's arguments get shuffled around and rewritten when it actually spawns in the game. The inner and outer angles are stored in internal variables, and the first three arguments become the RGB color values.

[Misery]

Don't spawn it, then. Place it first as dormant, then simply activate it via ACS.

[Logan MTM]

It's really a simple solution. But, any No LOSII map will lose important lights. Yeah, I think I really don't care much about it.

[AFADoomer]

Spawn it and set the color with the first three args and intensity with the 4th arg using SetThingSpecial, then set the SpotInnerAngle and SpotOuterAngle variables with SetUserVariable.

Untested, but should work.

[Logan MTM]

I really can't see how UserVariables deal with Thing Specials

[AFADoomer]

The whole argument shuffling thing that I mentioned earlier?

The inner and outer angles are stored in internal variables, and the first three arguments become the RGB color values.

For a standard, editor-placed spotlight, the arguments are:
- color
- inner angle
- outer angle
- intensity

When the light is loaded in the game (so, what you end up with after your Spawn call), the arguments have been shuffled around:
- red amount
- green amount
- blue amount
- intensity

*and* the inner angle and outer angle values are written to the SpotInnerAngle and SpotOuterAngle variables internal to the light actor.

This second version of the arguments is what you are working with in ACS, so with what you are trying to do you have to set the arguments according to that pattern.

If you want to modify (or set) the inner/outer angle value, you have to modify the variable values directly. SetUserVariable is used to modify any numeric internal actor variable, not just 'user_' variables.

So something like this:

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SetThingSpecial(5101, 0, 0, 255, 0, 1024);
SetUserVariable(5101, "SpotInnerAngle", 20.0);
SetUserVariable(5101, "SpotOuterAngle", 45.0);

Gives you a green spotlight that has a cone that fades between 20 degrees and 45 degrees from the centerline of the light.

EDIT: Was missing decimal points on the angles.

[Logan MTM]

Holly!
I really like to know that!

#Magic!

Thank you so much!