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I have a small part of a city for my map. Now I put some street lights in and it looks like I need to add a light entity to make them seem to give off light. Now, when I go into the entity inspector, it says I can add a light radius and all of that to the model. Is it possible to make the actual model give off it's own light? Or do I need to put a light source in or by it?

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Models and lights are two separate things. You can combine them and save them as a 'prefab', but I don't know that TheifsDen came with any prefabs in the package.

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Models and lights are two separate things.

Okay thanks, just making sure

 

but I don't know that TheifsDen came with any prefabs in the package.

 

No, I had to make myown to steal the sky from the thief's den map.

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Models and lights can be combined, but currently Dark Radiant doesn't quite support it. What you have to do is change the func-class to "light" and add all the proper light parameters to it. (of course you could also just create a light and add the model parameter to it) The Lightorigin is moved via the parameter light-center. This is not a dirty hack, no it's actually intended to do it this way and it works nicely in Doom 3, but since you don't have anyway to preview it, it's a little bit hard to tweak it right. I actually opened an issue about this already on the bugtracker: Issue #529. It's going to be fixed (hopefully). It's much more comfortable to move one object around instead of two. Supergrouping of objects (brushes, models) and lights does not work either yet, afaik.

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It's going to be fixed (hopefully). It's much more comfortable to move one object around instead of two. Supergrouping of objects (brushes, models) and lights does not work either yet, afaik.

 

I hope it gets fixed too.

Something to look forward to. Hopefully :-)

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