Point spotlight

Template:Base point It is a light_dynamic with two glow sprite effects: a beam effect for viewers outside the light cone and a halo effect for viewers inside the cone.

• If the 'No Dynamic Light' spawn flag is checked this entity will just provide a sprite effects, and will not illuminate other objects.

By default point_spotlight is told to use the material sprites/glow_test02.vmt. You can change this if you are shipping your own binaries by going into point_spotlight.cpp in the server project, navigating to line 351 and replacing:

m_hSpotlight = CBeam::BeamCreate( "sprites/glow_test02.vmt", m_flSpotlightGoalWidth );

There you can define your own material.

Todo: Define a way to set a custom materials through this ents keyvalues

A point_spotlight.

Keyvalues

Spotlight Length ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

Length of the spotlight beam.

Spotlight Width ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

Width of the spotlight beam.

Color (R G B) ([todo internal name (i)]) <color255>

Spotlight color.

HDR color scale. ([todo internal name (i)]) <float>

float value to multiply sprite color by when running in HDR mode.

Halo size scale. ([todo internal name (i)]) <float> (in all games since )

float value to determine the size of the halo.

Name (targetname) <string>[ Edit ]

The name that other entities refer to this entity by, via Inputs/Outputs or other keyvalues (e.g. parentname or target).
Also displayed in Hammer's 2D views and Entity Report.

See also:  Generic Keyvalues, Inputs and Outputs available to all entities

Parentname:

Parent (parentname) <targetname>

Specifies a movement parent. An entity will maintain its initial offset from its parent. An attachment point can be added to the end of the name, separated by a comma.

RenderFields:

Render Mode (rendermode) <byte choices>

Set a non-standard rendering mode on this entity.

Render Modes

0: Normal 1: Color 2: Texture 3: Glow 4: Solid/Alphatest 5: Additive 6: Removed, does nothing 7: Additive Fractional Frame 8: Alpha Add 9: World Space Glow 10: Don't Render

Render FX (renderfx) <byte choices>

Various somewhat legacy alpha effects. See render effects.

Render Amount / Transparency (renderamt) <byte>

Transparency amount, requires a Render Mode other than Normal. 0 is invisible, 255 is fully visible.

Render Color (R G B) (rendercolor) <color255>

Color tint.

Pitch Yaw Roll (Y Z X) (angles) <QAngle>

This entity's orientation in the world. Pitch is rotation around the Y axis, yaw is the rotation around the Z axis, roll is the rotation around the X axis.

Minimum / Maximum DX Level (mindxlevel / maxdxlevel) <integer choices> (removed since )

The entity will not exist if the engine is running outside the given range of DirectX Versions.

Choices

Warning:If these are used, the object may break when the user switches their DirectX settings.[missing string] 0 - Default (no bounding) 60 - DirectX 6 (!FGD for mindxlevel) 70 - DirectX 7 80 - DirectX 8 (GeForce4 Ti & FX 5000 series) 81 - DirectX 8.1 (GeForce FX 5800, 5900 & Radeon 8500/9100 and 9000/9200) 90 - DirectX 9 Shader Model 2 92 - OpenGL аналогичен DirectX 9 Shader Model 2 (using ToGL; only) !FGD 95 - DirectX 9 Shader Model 3 (in all games since ) 98 - DirectX 9 Shader Model 3 on Xbox 360 ( only) !FGD

Minimum / Maximum Effect Details Level (mincpulevel / maxcpulevel) <integer choices> (in all games since )

Don't render for players with Effect Details levels that exceed the minimum or maximum.

Choices

0: Default ("Low" for mincpulevel, "High" for maxcpulevel) 1: Low 2: Medium 3: High

Minimum / Maximum Shader Details Level (mingpulevel / maxgpulevel) <integer choices> (in all games since )

Don't render for players with Shader Details levels that exceed the minimum or maximum.

Choices

0: Default ("Low" for mingpulevel, "Very High" for maxgpulevel) 1: Low 2: Medium 3: High 4: Very High

See also:  cpu_level / gpu_level convars

Flags

• 1 : Start On
• 2 : No Dynamic Light

Inputs

LightOn

Turn the spotlight on.

LightOff

Turn the spotlight off.

SetColor <color255RedirectInput/color32>

Change the color of the spotlight. Light must be turned off then back on before changes take effect.

ForceUpdate  (in all games since )

Force an update of the spotlight position and orientation.

Parentname:

SetParent <stringRedirectInput/string>

Move with this entity. See Entity Hierarchy (parenting).

SetParentAttachment <stringRedirectInput/string>

Change this entity to attach to a specific attachment point on its parent. The entity will teleport so that the position of its root bone matches that of the attachment. Entities must be parented before being sent this input.

SetParentAttachmentMaintainOffset <stringRedirectInput/string>

As above, but without teleporting. The entity retains its position relative to the attachment at the time of the input being received.

ClearParent

Removes this entity from the the movement hierarchy, leaving it free to move independently.

RenderFields:

Alpha <integer 0–255>

Sets the entity's transparency to a number from 0 (invisible) to 255 (fully visible). Requires the entity to have its rendermode set to a number other than 0.

Color <color255RedirectInput/color32>

Sets an RGB color for the entity.

Outputs

OnLightOn

Fires when light turns on.

OnLightOff

Fires when light turns off.

See also

• Lighting