Light Switches

[Tutorial]

category
General Half-Life 2/Lighting

description
Flick a light on or off at the touch of a button.

keywords
lights, light, switch, switches, button, func_button.

You first need a location for the light and it must obviously contain a light entity in it. Select the light entity and press ALT+ENTER. This will open a dialog box. Set the name as "light1".

Next create a small square brush that is against a wall (This will be the button). After placing the brush, select it and press CTRL+T and choose func_button.



Set these Properties:
Delay before reset: 0

Now go to the Outputs tab, click Add, and fill in the fields as shown below

My output named: OnPressed
Targets entities named: light
Via this input: Toggle




Extra Features:

In the button properties, you can go to flags, and check of Damage Activates or Touch Activates, and this will allow you to shoot or just walk into the button to make it work.

And voila! That’s it.

Contributed by SiLenTDeaTH

[Annon Kaies Zi]

Is there a way to turn off a spotlight with the same switch?

[Spas12]

Of coarse. just make the spotlight the name of the light to be turned off or on and make it so it has an input of the button

[Annon Kaies Zi]

When I do that it doesn't work, and in the properties menu it has a symbol with a red line or something.

Note that by spotlight, I mean a point_spotlight entity.

[Spas12]

hm... dunno. red line means invalid output so maybe u didnt name the enities or something else wrong..

[Annon Kaies Zi]

I did everything according to this tutorial. The other lights turn off, just not the point_spotlight.

[th1alb]

yes, i have the exact same problem

[HallWack]

I got the same too problem, cant shut down spotlights!
I also got little funny issue that the button moves little when I press the button...

[AquilaPhamas]

Do you have No Dynamic Light flagged? If so turn it off, I beleive that will help.

[-=[Mayhem]=-]

When i pres the buttom it turns off... but does it turn on when i press it again?

[Rick_D]

If you set the 'toggle' flag.

Also, set the 'don't move' flag to make the button stationary.

[Sauce]

Thanks for the tut! One problem though. I have a button that is supposed to spawn blocks for a HL2 mod called sourceforts. Anyway, I can get it to spawn blocks, I just can't get it to move the button in the right direction. I've tried everything to get it to go into the brush (Which rests at 45 degrees) but I just can't do it. What settings should I use for the "Move Direction (Pitch, Yaw, Role)" property? Here is an associated image:

[Lugz]

Thanks for the tut! One problem though. I have a button that is supposed to spawn blocks for a HL2 mod called sourceforts. Anyway, I can get it to spawn blocks, I just can't get it to move the button in the right direction. I've tried everything to get it to go into the brush (Which rests at 45 degrees) but I just can't do it. What settings should I use for the "Move Direction (Pitch, Yaw, Role)" property? Here is an associated image:

For Move Direction, click the "Point At" button, and then click the direction that u want the button to move, so in your situation once you click the point at button click right behind the func_button on the brush.

-Lugz

[KewlAzMe]

Hi!

Great tips.. it worked great. BUT... I can't seem to get this to work with Light_Dynamic. Is it not possible?

[dead7iest-weap0n]

ok, how would I do this with a model, instead of a brush? Because I want to use the combine switch model.