Multi-spotlight flashlight

[dodopod]

A flashlight made with GZDoom's spotlights. The beam is divided into a hotspot and spill, with an optional bounce light. The bounce looks bad as often as it looks good, in my opinion, so it's off by default (range set to 0). The flashlight flickers when its power is low, and flickers more the lower it gets. In this PK3, the flashlight is a weapon, but the beam itself is controlled by a powerup, so it should be easy to change it into an inventory item, give it to monsters, etc.

Changes:
v1.0.2

• If energy type is "", flicker is controlled by powerup duration.
• If flicker threshold is < 0, it's assumed to represent a number of seconds.

v1.0.1

• Swapped x & y beam offsets, since they were the wrong way around.

Download:

flashlight-v1.0.2.pk3

Multi-spotlight flashlight v1.0.2

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Old versions:

flashlight-v1.0.1.pk3

Multi-spotlight flashlight v1.0.1

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flashlight.pk3

Multi-spotlight flashlight v1.0.0

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[Nash]

That's an interesting way to simulate light cookies. :) Good stuff!

[Enjay]

Cool flashlight; one of the more effective ones I've seen.

Unfortunately, it doesn't sit very nicely with ambient occlusion:

[Nash]

I don't think that's ambient occlusion's fault... that looks like artifacts from a low res shadowmap. You can toggle shadowmaps on and off to confirm that that is the culprit... to make it better, I suppose you can crank the shadowmap resolution to maximum (2048) but even then it won't be eliminated completely...

(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though; but I've had similar problems when spotlights became a thing in the engine and - like everyone at the time - I started playing with player-attached spotlight-flashlights... and one of the first things I noticed is that that pixelated stuff happens with low res shadowmaps)

[dodopod]

v1.0.1 is out. It's a small update: I accidentally had the x & y beam offsets backwards.

[AlphaSoraKun]

Judging by the video. I'd say that this looks quite impressive.

[osjclatchford]

Very nice work. Looks quite realistic indeed!

Glad to see my flashlight HUD sprite is still getting some use!

[doomfiend]

Would it be possible to have this as an optional file that replaces the Light amp goggles? (that shuts off when light amp powerup runs out?) I would absolutely love that; provided its a headlamp and not a flashlight lol
I find the lightamp makes maps look generally ugly with its full bright setting :C

[dodopod]

I just made a small edit to the code to make that easier. Now all you have to do is:

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class Headlamp : Infrared replaces Infrared
{
    Default
    {
        Powerup.Type "PowerHeadlamp";
    }
}

class PowerHeadlamp : PowerFlashlight
{
    Default
    {
        Powerup.Duration -20;
        PowerFlashlight.EnergyType "";
        PowerFlashlight.FlickerThreshold -10;
        PowerFlashlight.Offset 0, 0, 32;
    }
}

[doomfiend]

I absolutely love this, thank you!

[WaterMelon 64]

Hello, Is an awesome work, really is a noise flashlight, can i use it for my mod?

[dodopod]

Sure, go ahead.

[XLightningStormL]

Any chance the spotlight beams could alert monsters a-la Soundless Mound, Seems kinda odd not for it to alert monsters considering using flashlights should be equivalent to having a neon sign pointing at you.

[dodopod]

I considered that when I made it. I think you could spawn an actor that sticks to the center of the flashlight's spot, and calls A_AlertMonsters every tic.

[irukanjji]

Doom3 Flashlight is back