Light spot

Entity Description

A cone-shaped, invisible light source. Can be turned on and off through inputs, though switchable lights may cause lightmap errors. This is a static spotlight that can be pointed at another entity.

Note:When using this entity, it is often necessary to turn the brightness value up significantly for the effects of the light to be visible. Values of 3000-4000 are sometimes necessary for light sources like streetlights.

Keyvalues

• Template:Kv targetname The targetname value for a spotlight will point the light at the entity named. If no targetname is available, the entity will point with it's angles paramater.

• Template:Kv angles This will control the direction the light points at, if no targetname is specified.

• _inner_cone

<integer> This is the inner focus of the light, or the edge of the brightest part of the light. It will fade from here out to the

• _cone

<integer>

• Template:Kv light

Flags

• 1 : Initially Off

Inputs

• 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.

See Also

• light
• point_spotlight
• Light entities
• Tutorial: Quadratic/Linear/Constant in Lights
• Tutorial: Source Lighting