Light tower with light rotating 360 degrees?

TheUltimateEnd · Medic **Joined**: 16 Jan 2004 **Location**: Gotham

I'd like to have a light tower thats beam goes all the way around it

or teach me how to make 4 different ones with each facing a different direction (IE N E S W)

Please, and keep in mind...I'm very modding retarted. I've only made a few units.

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Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

Welcome to Project Perfect Mod Forums. Smile

Try different values for these.

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; Some spotlight controls
SpotlightSpeed=.015 ; speed in radians
SpotlightMovementRadius=2000 ; offset of center of arc sweep
SpotlightLocationRadius=1000 ; offset from building
SpotlightAcceleration=.0025 ; acceleration in radians
SpotlightAngle=.5 ; maximum suggest angle of arc sweep

The building needs "HasSpotlight=true".

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TheUltimateEnd · Medic **Joined**: 16 Jan 2004 **Location**: Gotham

Yeah I messed with those, and I can't figger it out, maybe I'm missing something simple. The building I'm using is the light tower they already have in the rules.ini

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The DvD · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:47 pm Post subject:

The spotlight mode can only be set in preplaced buildings in maps.

Of you just make the light tower buildable for skirmish, it will always use use values Kravvitz told you about. try changing the arc value

TheUltimateEnd · Medic **Joined**: 16 Jan 2004 **Location**: Gotham

Aw...that's one of the saddest things I've heard all day...oh well. I'll keep trying......

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John Galt · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:47 am Post subject:

Set SpotlightAngle= to something over 6.28 (2*pi)... or set it to 100000 and it'll spin like crazy.

TheUltimateEnd · Medic **Joined**: 16 Jan 2004 **Location**: Gotham

Oh I think the dvd didn't understand me. I know already how to make it buildable, I was wondering if there is a way to change those stats kravitz spoke of to make it 360 degrees. If so I might have a need little mod to show people, It's definately novice, but the best I've ever done Smile

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The DvD · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:34 am Post subject:

I did understand you.. the point is that if you make the light tower buildable in skirmish, it will always use the spotlight settings in rules.ini, while preplaced light towers in maps offer additional options.

TheUltimateEnd · Medic **Joined**: 16 Jan 2004 **Location**: Gotham

Oh! Ok.

Well I use the same maps anyways, So I'll just make the towers pre placed #Tongue

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pft1086 · Light Infantry **Joined**: 04 Dec 2003

Don't do that, just do what Nobody said. Then if you just happen to play a different map you'll be set.

TheUltimateEnd · Medic **Joined**: 16 Jan 2004 **Location**: Gotham

I got a semi circle going on (It does 360 but it stops and goes back :'(...CLOSE ENOUGH THOUGH Smile

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BUT when it goes on the backside there are these black lines instead of the light? Anyone know what I'm talking about? Any way I could fix that? It's no big deal, I was just curious. Since I'll be using these on nearly pitch black maps I guess the lines don't really matter.

Also any way to make the circle only be like 1 or 2 tanks length from the tower as it rotates, actually 3 tanks length sounds perfect Smile

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Thank you in advance for any help

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Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

I think you would change SpotlightLocationRadius= for that.

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pft1086 · Light Infantry **Joined**: 04 Dec 2003

I think I know what you mean by the black lines. Try changing the SpotlightMovementRadius= to 0.

Xion999 · Medic **Joined**: 25 Feb 2004

TheUltimateEnd wrote:

I got a semi circle going on (It does 360 but it stops and goes back :'(...CLOSE ENOUGH THOUGH Smile

).

BUT when it goes on the backside there are these black lines instead of the light? Anyone know what I'm talking about? Any way I could fix that? It's no big deal, I was just curious. Since I'll be using these on nearly pitch black maps I guess the lines don't really matter.

Also any way to make the circle only be like 1 or 2 tanks length from the tower as it rotates, actually 3 tanks length sounds perfect Smile

.

Thank you in advance for any help

-= Tue =-

pffftt.....screw that

use these values...it will go in a full 360 degrees

SpotlightSpeed=.015 ; speed in radians
SpotlightMovementRadius=0 ; offset of center of arc sweep
SpotlightLocationRadius=1000 ; offset from building
SpotlightAcceleration=.0025 ; acceleration in radians
SpotlightAngle=360

u might want to increase the speed though cause its a little slow otherwise
Enjoy!