Hi, i used the flashlight script from aum18 but i am not satisfied at all. Because i want a nice spotlight like it looks when you create a light in wed.
Like in this picture, these are two lights created in wed:

But my flashlight hasn't a real spot although i use "my.spotlight=on;" and the "d3d_spotlightcone" vector. It looks like in these pictures:

Looks like there is a wrong light/shadow calculation, or maybe i am wrong..and I don't like these hard borders, i want it as smooth as it looks like from lights created in wed. I don't mean the transition to dark, but it's like a triangle instead of a round spot.

I hope somebody can help me :/

the shadows created in WED are prerendered and therefore have more detal than the realtime dynamic light for your torchbeam

but how can i create a flashlight that looks for example like that one?

The picture immediatly above looks like it is using a projected texture (decal). Decals will be in A7, bu are not available now.

However, you can improve the resolution of the dynamic lights through the compiler. When your compiling, click on the arrow in the bottom-right corner for advanced options. Then adjust the Tesselate Shaded slider.

Lower values will divide surfaces into more triangles (smaller), and higher values will divide less (larger triangles). So you obviously want the lowest setting possible so that the triangles are NOT NOTICED.

Be careful though, because setting this variable too low will increase build time, lower the FPS, and can cause build errors. The trick is finding the median through a lot of testing.

Good luck...

Try improve lights in display.wdl. Or play with shadow settings like treshold or something.

thanks for your help, playing with the tesselate shaded slider works pretty fine!
i don't use the templates, but i will check the display.wdl, maybe i will find something usefull to increase the quality even more.

Take look at "d3d_spotlightcone" and "d3d_spotlightfalloff". Play with the values, you´ll recognize an improvement.

http://www.live-share.com/files/263840/Flashlight.rar.html
This is my flashlight example. Old script modified. (Source&Compiled)
**Sorry my bad speak english**

@emre can you post this on rapidshare.com because the server is extreme slow

I agree with Fear411, live-share is nutcracking slow,
getting a insane 0.1KB download rate! =/