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DaveKirk
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Posted: 8th Mar 2022 18:21 Edited at: 8th Mar 2022 18:50
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Hi,
sorry if this is a newbie question, i want to add this script to the AI to give them flashlights, I have no idea where to start

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Posted: 8th Mar 2022 19:22
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Didn't wherever you got the script from include instructions for use?

To make the script show up in MAX's 'behaviours' add the line:
-- DESCRIPTION: light npc

at the top of the script.
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Posted: 8th Mar 2022 19:59 Edited at: 8th Mar 2022 21:20
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Thanks, I followed this
https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/221427#msg2624580
but the light doesnt seem to attach to the character
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Posted: 8th Mar 2022 20:52
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That's a link to this thread.
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Posted: 8th Mar 2022 21:21
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Apologies
corrected it now
I have it all working other than the rotation of the light is all wrong
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Posted: 9th Mar 2022 10:24
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What is all the angle offset malarkey about?

Try it without that first.
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Hi AmenMoses,
I've been working with the light_npc script in Max too and noticed that although the spotlight will lock to the soldier, when the soldier turns the spotlight seems to spin like a top in different directions.
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Posted: 9th Mar 2022 16:39 Edited at: 9th Mar 2022 16:42
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Oooh i not explored this yet love the light link

Dude having a light source attached to an entity in any tgc products is so futuristic it beggars belief!
Never in the world of tgc has any entity held a light source, let alone a moving ai character. this is stuff of future dreams in tgc world

In my day i had to make do with a shoe lace an airfix model and a giant torch as my characters
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Posted: 9th Mar 2022 16:47
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Here's the link to the scripts. Unfortunately they seem to work better in GG classic than Max at this moment, but still really cool.
https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/221427#msg2624559
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Posted: 9th Mar 2022 20:24
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Quote: "I've been working with the light_npc script in Max too and noticed that although the spotlight will lock to the soldier, when the soldier turns the spotlight seems to spin like a top in different directions."


Hmm, I've just spent a couple of hours trying to control the spotlight from Lua (which I could do in Classic) and I can't figure it out.
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Quote: "Hmm, I've just spent a couple of hours trying to control the spotlight from Lua (which I could do in Classic) and I can't figure it out."

Well if you cant then just as well forget it
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Posted: 9th Mar 2022 23:32
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LOL ! I know right
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 08:03
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Quote: "Well if you cant then just as well forget it"

seriously!!! in 2021 all games can do this at least
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 09:43 Edited at: 10th Mar 2022 09:46
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Quote: "seriously!!! in 2021 all games can do this at least "

Which games have enemy hunting you down with flashlights ?
I do not recall any let alone all games.
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 12:02
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Literally any game that has outdoor night scenes has enemies with flashlights
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 13:02
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Quote: "Which games have enemy hunting you down with flashlights ?
I do not recall any let alone all games."

i mean cars, deadly bots and many more things not only stupid soldiers that cant shoot real bullets.
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 13:06
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Quote: "Literally any game that has outdoor night scenes has enemies with flashlights"

i have a solution for that without scripting, wait for the release date.
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 13:17
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This script works fine with regular bulbs, just the spotlights are acting up in Max.
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 14:28
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Literally any game that has outdoor night scenes has enemies with flashlights "

Really .. I very much stand corrected then.
I have seen it in Cut Scenes etc but just do not recall it in Gameplay ..
Not a huge Gamer so maybe im behind the times
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 17:06 Edited at: 10th Mar 2022 17:12
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i think you guys must play some open world games and see what's going on in modern games. even in max Payne 1 the train map use lights on trains. (stalker shadow of Chernobyl , stalker clear sky , stalker anomaly)
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 19:22 Edited at: 10th Mar 2022 19:23
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Quote: "i think you guys must play some open world games and see what's going on in modern games. even in max Payne 1 the train map use lights on trains. "

Ye cannot say i played any of those but ye trains car lights of course i have seen those but i just meant characters carrying torches with the beam of light as Bluemeenie demonstrated.
That i have not seen.
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 19:38
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I did post that problem on GitHub
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Posted: 11th Mar 2022 06:20
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Quote: "carrying torches"

just check resident evil Series , in one of old and huge cave maps all of zombies carrying a torch on their hands . or just check dayz , in dayz zombie miners carrying a light bulb on their head.im gamer/coder man
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Posted: 11th Mar 2022 18:25 Edited at: 11th Mar 2022 18:26
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A bit tricky to work lights in GGMax; here, I've attached a white light to the running car, even to the police one.
Anyway, that was in the early days.

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