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#1 · January 5, 2012, 11:16 pm

Hello all!
I wanted to make my own texture light (like lights/light_panel_cool)
I looked in the vmt for Valve's light panel textures but only found the following:

Code: Select all: UnlitGeneric { $basetexture "Lights/White004" $surfaceprop glass $nodecal 1 }

So how do I make my own lit texture?
Thanks!

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#2 · January 6, 2012, 1:21 am

I'm not sure why you didn't see it, but you should add the $selfillum syntax in your custom VMT. You can find more about it here.

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#3 · January 6, 2012, 7:14 am

That won't make it illuminate other things. There is a tutorial about it that TopHattWaffle at http://www.youtube.com/rocketrascal34 did about creating a custom .rad file to compile it as a lighting texture.

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#4 · January 6, 2012, 7:47 pm

Vordwann wrote:

That won't make it illuminate other things. There is a tutorial about it that TopHattWaffle at http://www.youtube.com/rocketrascal34 did about creating a custom .rad file to compile it as a lighting texture.

Thanks!
Also, do you know if it's possible to turn on and off a texture light?

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#5 · January 6, 2012, 9:59 pm

I dont think thats possible, but Im not 100% sure.

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#6 · January 6, 2012, 10:13 pm

You could have it as a func_brush and then enable/disable it on trigger.

I think in terms of boolean variables. Generally, it makes things easier.

#7 · January 7, 2012, 1:30 am

I don't think func_brushes with glowing textures are included in light compilations.

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#8 · January 7, 2012, 2:31 am

YM_Industries wrote:

I don't think func_brushes with glowing textures are included in light compilations.

I put P2's orange light textures on func_brushes in a Lava map to simulate lava glow (displacements wouldn't emit light) and killed them OnMapSpawn to keep the player from seeing them instead of the lava. The glow stayed. I don't believe toggling the brushes will turn the lights off considering killing the brushes didn't kill the light.

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#9 · January 7, 2012, 7:07 am

YM_Industries wrote:

Also, do you know if it's possible to turn on and off a texture light?

It is possible to add proxies inside a self illuminated light. Look at: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wik ... al_Proxies for the list of proxies you can use.

Here's an example material I made one time.

Code: Select all: "lightmappedGeneric" { "$baseTexture" "maps/dm_chickencoop/trim2" "$surfaceprop" "metal" "$bumpmap" "maps/dm_chickencoop/trim_normal" "$selfillum" 1 "$reflectivity" "[0 0 0]" "Proxies" { "Sine" { "resultVar" "$selfillumtint" "sineperiod" 2 "timeoffset" 8 "sinemin" 1 "sinemax" 2 } }
}

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