[NatalyaAF]

I'm trying to get a car's brake lights get brighter when the player presses the brakes. It detects when the player is hitting the brakes or not which is good. Problem is I don't know how to make the sprites brighter or not.

Here is the code trying to make them brighter:

PHP Code:

        new car_index = g_CarIndex[car];
        new max = g_CarLightQuantity[car_index];
        if (max > 0)
        {
            new buffer = 0;
            decl light;
            do
            {
                light = g_CarLights[car_index][buffer];
                SetVariantString("255");
                AcceptEntityInput(light, "Alpha", light, light, 0);
                buffer += 1;
            } while (buffer < max);
        } 


I can't get the alpha to go up to 255. (They spawn at only 100.) I can get them to turn off when the player exits the car, but I can't change their brightness.

[blodia]

which entity are you using for the sprite? alpha is transparency not brightness.

[NatalyaAF]

I guess transparency would do the same thing. I am using env_sprite for it.

[exvel]

AFAIK: That is not really possible after entity has been already created. I had the same issue when tried to create transparent icons above player's head and had to use proxies for that.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w...terial_Proxies
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w...terial_Proxies

[blodia]

looking at http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Env_sprite you could try the glow proxy.

assuming this is for css you could wait until the update and get access to orange box input features for colour intensity.

you could also try a env_lightglow http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Env_lightglow.

[NatalyaAF]

Thx for the help guys. Since it wasn't possible to edit the sprites, I came up with a new solution... I spawned 4 env_sprites instead of two, so each brake light had two. They all get turned off when the car is not being used, but when you hop in the car only two which have renderamt 100 get displayed. Then, when you hit the brakes the other two which have renderamt 155 get displayed, giving the illusion of a renderamt 255 sprite over each tail light. When you release the brakes I used HideSprite on the two 155 sprites, so you again only see the originals which are 100.