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Note:For an article on light sources in general, proceed to Lighting.
Warning:Adding a name to this entity creates a dynamic (switchable) light source, and creates extra lightmap pages for each uniquely named light. This occurs regardless of whether the light entity receives any inputs at run time. Lights should not be named unless they will be turned on and off via inputs, and then only sparingly. Lights given the same name will be triggered together and share lightmap pages. Many dynamic lights in a level can cause performance problems and other errors. A reduction in lightmap quality should be expected when dealing with named lights.
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{{warning|Adding a name to this entity creates a dynamic (switchable) light source, and creates extra lightmap pages for each uniquely named light. This occurs regardless of whether the light entity receives any inputs at run time. Lights should not be named unless they will be turned on and off via inputs, and then only sparingly. Lights given the same name will be triggered together and share lightmap pages. Many dynamic lights in a level can cause performance problems and other errors.}} | {{warning|Adding a name to this entity creates a dynamic (switchable) light source, and creates extra lightmap pages for each uniquely named light. This occurs regardless of whether the light entity receives any inputs at run time. Lights should not be named unless they will be turned on and off via inputs, and then only sparingly. Lights given the same name will be triggered together and share lightmap pages. Many dynamic lights in a level can cause performance problems and other errors. A reduction in lightmap quality should be expected when dealing with named lights.}} | ||
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Revision as of 15:29, 25 July 2007
Note:For an article on light sources in general, proceed to Lighting.Entity Description
An invisible light source. If named, it can be turned on and off through inputs.
The light entity is basic yet essential to almost every map.
Keyvalues
Warning:Adding a name to this entity creates a dynamic (switchable) light source, and creates extra lightmap pages for each uniquely named light. This occurs regardless of whether the light entity receives any inputs at run time. Lights should not be named unless they will be turned on and off via inputs, and then only sparingly. Lights given the same name will be triggered together and share lightmap pages. Many dynamic lights in a level can cause performance problems and other errors. A reduction in lightmap quality should be expected when dealing with named lights.Flags
- 1 : Initially Off
Inputs
- Template:Kv targetname
- TurnOn
- Turns the light on.
- TurnOff
- Turns the light off.
- Toggle
- Toggles the light on or off.
- SetPattern
- Sets the light's custom appearance to the input's parameters.
- FadeToPattern
- Fades from the light's old pattern to the new one.
Outputs
See Also
- Tutorial: Adding Light - A beginners tutorial on how to set up this entity.
- Tutorial: Intermediate Lighting - A continuation on the above tutorial, further dealing with how to set up light sources in general.
- Advanced Lighting