Multiple flashing/changing lights?

[Panch]

Hello all,

I'm using hardware lights for this.
I'm changing the attuenation of a few lights using light->SetAttenuationConstants((0,0,0)); but when I set one light (psuedo) to go completly dark, all other lights don't seem to shine light either afterwards. Also if I move a dynamic light with:

l1->GetMovable()->MovePosition(csVector3(0,4,0));
l1->GetMovable()->UpdateMove();
l1->Setup();

It just seems to zip out to nowhere.

Any ideas?

Eh, NM - I think I got it

Thanks!

[jorrit]

Eh, NM - I think I got it

Thanks!

No problem. Glad we could help

Greetings,

[Panch]

Hey Jorrit,

Thanks for the quick reply , I answered my previous questions in the above post; but that still didn't lead me to something like a flashing or strobing light. Well without keyboard intervention anyways. I wrote a FlashOn function in which the attenuation was a positive csVector and then a FlashOff function with a attenuation of 0 but like I said I have to use the keyboard to get it to 'flash'.

Any idea?

Thanks

[jorrit]

Hey Jorrit,

Thanks for the quick reply , I answered my previous questions in the above post; but that still didn't lead me to something like a flashing or strobing light. Well without keyboard intervention anyways. I wrote a FlashOn function in which the attenuation was a positive csVector and then a FlashOff function with a attenuation of 0 but like I said I have to use the keyboard to get it to 'flash'.

Any idea?

Thanks

Well you could use a timer event. Check out the csEventTimer utility class.

Greetings,

[Panch]

Ah nice, I must have missed the timer in the documentation. I was toying with the idea of calling a rand(gloabal) and then doing something like FlashingOn(global /2) FlashingOff(global / 3), but i actually think the timer would suite me better.

Thank ya kindly