Entities/Lights

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Most light entities are interpreted by the map compiler and stripped from the resulting BSP. If you pass -keeplights to the map compiler, it won't strip them. In that case the Renderer might use them for dynamic lights, but the game (qvm) will free them instantly after a spawn again.

light (.65 .65 1) (-8 -8 -8) (8 8 8) LINEAR NOANGLE UNUSED1 UNUSED2 NOGRIDLIGHT

Non-displayed point light source. The -pointscale and -scale arguments to Q3Map2 affect the brightness of these lights. The -skyscale argument affects brightness of entity sun lights. Especially a target_position is well suited for targeting.

Q3MAP2 KEYS

target

Lights pointed at a target will be spotlights. This will only take targetname and not the multi-targetnames into account

radius

overrides the default 64 unit radius of a spotlight at the target point.

_light OR light

overrides the default 300 intensity.

_color

weighted RGB value of light color (default white - 1.0 1.0 1.0).

_sun

Set this key to 1 on a spotlight to make an infinite sun light.

fade

Fades light attenuation. Only affects linear lights.

scale

Scales light attentation, from SOF2/JK2. Scales the "light" value.

SPAWNFLAGS

LINEAR

Use a linear falloff. Default is inverse distance squared (more realistic).

NOANGLE

Ignore angle attenuation.

NOGRIDLIGHT

Do not affect the lightgrid (dynamic entity lighting).

lightJunior (0 0.7 0.3) (-6 -6 -6) (6 6 6) LINEAR NOANGLE UNUSED1 UNUSED2 NOGRIDLIGHT

Non-displayed point light source THAT ONLY AFFECTS ENTITIES (lightgrid). The -pointscale and -scale arguments to Q3Map2 affect the brightness of these lights. The -skyscale argument affects brightness of entity sun lights. Especially a target_position is well suited for targeting.

Q3MAP2 KEYS

target

Lights pointed at a target will be spotlights. This will only take targetname and not the multi-targetnames into account

radius

overrides the default 64 unit radius of a spotlight at the target point.

_light OR light

overrides the default 300 intensity.

_color

weighted RGB value of light color (default white - 1.0 1.0 1.0).

_sun

Set this key to 1 on a spotlight to make an infinite sun light.

fade

Fades light attenuation. Only affects linear lights.

scale

Scales light attentation, from SOF2/JK2. Scales the "light" value.

SPAWNFLAGS

LINEAR

Use a linear falloff. Default is inverse distance squared (more realistic).

NOANGLE

Ignore angle attenuation.

NOGRIDLIGHT

Do not affect the lightgrid (dynamic entity lighting). Setting this spawnflag will disable this light entirely.