NewLights_Spawner

NewLights_Spawner is a point entity available in Black Mesa. This entity creates client side new lights over a given area when it appears. Created new lights removes if this entity is removed from the level. Initially created to test new lighting system and debugging.

Class hierarchy
CNewLightsSpawner ↳CBaseEntity

NewLighs_Spawner in perftest_glight.

Important:This entity will remove old and spawn new lights after each save load. This entity for debugging only.

Keyvalues

LightType (LightType) <choices>

Type of new lights that will create NewLights_Spawner.

• 0: Point Light
• 1: Spot Light

NumLights (NumLights) <integer>

Amount of new lights that will be spawned.

NumLightsInRow (NumLightsInRow) <integer>

Amount of new lights that will spawn in each row.

ColSpacing (ColSpacing) <float>

Col spacing.

RandomColor (RandomColor) <choices>

If yes - new lights will use random colors. If no - new lights will use chosen color.

• 0: No
• 1: Yes

SpawnDir_Right (SpawnDir_Right) <vector>

Spawn direction.

Light Color (LightColor) <color255>

The RGB color of the light. Colors must be between 0 and 255.

Light Intensity (lightintensity) <float>

Intensity/brightness of the light. It's RGB * intensity.

Note:With 0 it will make the light disabled, including the effects. Doesn't affect shadows.

Range (lightrange) <float>

Range of the light, or how far the light source can illuminate. Measured in Hammer Units.

Warning:This is one of the parameters that affects performance in the game. Smaller values ​​allow you to process less geometry and save performance.

Note:Shadows from objects that are at a great distance look noticeably worse than shadows from objects that are near to the light source.

Important:Range is limited, the limit depends on intensity value. Do not use values ​​bigger than the intensity value allows.

Examples

Range - 50 Range - 1000 Range - 15000

See also

• newLight_Point - point deferred light entity.
• newLight_Spot - spot deferred light entity.
• env_lensflare - cinematic dynamic lens flare.
• newLight_Dir - directional sun light with godrays only.
• newLights_settings - entity that changes deferred light settings.
• godrays_settings - entity that changes godrays settings.
• env_cascade_light - deferred cascade sun light entity.
• New Lights Editor - in game deferred lights editor.
• Effect flags - effects flags, some of them are dynamic light effects.
• BlackMesa XenEngine: Part 4 – Lighting & Shadows - page from Chetan (lead programmer for Black Mesa) about new lights.
• BlackMesa XenEngine: Part2 – How a Frame is Rendered - page from Chetan (lead programmer for Black Mesa) about how a frame is rendered.
• BlackMesa XenEngine: Part1 – Heavily Modified Source Engine page from Chetan (lead programmer for Black Mesa) about Xengine.