how do i make a spotlight move in a circle rather than Eclipse

Renu48 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 11 Nov 2018

built a watchtower and was hoping to know how do i make a spotlight move in a circle rather than Eclipse after adding
HasSpotlight=yes
on Yuris revenge.
Also how do i add an alarm to alert me when enemy approaches my base and is caught in the spotlight

Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:07 pm Post subject:

To change the movement of the spotlight from an ellipse to a circle change SpotlightMovementRadius= from 1000 to 0

For the alarm you can attach a dummy weapon to the spotlight building, make it cause no damage but use an alarm sound when fired.

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Renu48 · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 11 Nov 2018

How does one make the dummy weapon?

also that did not change the spotlight movement to circle.

this is what my spotlight is like:

[CIVSPOT]
UIName=Name:CIVSPOT
Name=Watch tower
BuildCat=Combat
Strength=400
Prerequisite=NAHAND
Armor=concrete
TechLevel=1
Adjacent=8
Sight=8
DetectDisguise=yes
Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance,Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs,YuriCountry,Estonia,NorthKorea,Japan
AIBasePlanningSide=1
Cost=500
BaseNormal=no
Points=50
Power=5 ; default -10
Crewed=no
Capturable=true
Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60
DebrisAnims=DBRIS4LG,DBRIS4SM,DBRIS6LG
MaxDebris=2
MinDebris=1
HasSpotlight=true
SpotlightMovementRadius=0
DamageParticleSystems=SmallGreySSys,BigGreySmokeSys
DamageSmokeOffset=450, 500, 710
IsBase=no

Mig Eater · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 9:38 am Post subject:

SpotlightMovementRadius is a tag in the [General] section at the top of the rules ini. You dont use it on individual building, it's one setting that effects all spotlights in the game.

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