I have been making some changes to my cfg recently and realised that with "r_dynamic 1" the glow of the powerups can be seen thrught the walls. I guess this is not a big suprise, but also a palyer eg. having a quad can also be seen from another room.. for example a quadded enemy on dm2 is clearly visible from low-rl approacing to low-button from the room with ra-mega. For me this seems clearly to be an advantage thinking of a situation when a team can act seeing the enemy quad coming. Also I have tried adding r_rocketlight 1 a rocket flying can be seen from another side of the wall if is is close enought. Sticking with dm2 this means, a rocket flying through "path" can be seen from the closed secret room. Watcing some demos with these settings, there are some situations when the position of an enemy in a room can be determined easily from the path the rocket light takes on the wall of an adjacent room or whatever...
I have tried this on servers too, and have set -ruleset smackdown.

Sorry if this topic had already been discussed, but I havent found any info about it so far. Im curious whether I have missed something or is this a matter of tase...

Sshhhhhhhhh >

what u say is true
dynamic lights are also nice to see from which direction the enemy rocket comes, therefore useful for calculating the aproximate position of the enemy

Seeing quad glow a bit thru wall is possible even without r_dynamic, isn't it.

in R_MarkLights, in gl_rlight.c

adding


will fix the quad glow bug.. if its a dynamic light that is..

I think listening to sounds is still far superior than looking for rockets, thus i have dynamic light turned off for rockets i think. Would be too much flashing going on.

I guess u r right about the practical usage of glowing rockets, still in few situations it might make a difference... correct me if im wrong but what I was thinking of is for example in 2on2 ur getting into a fight 3rd or 4th, and if its the case u can see the rocks movement more accurately and make a fast aimed shot from a corner or something like that.. I cant think of any particular example right now


I think with r_dynamic the radius is much higher

Pointless thread, and actually must be called "r_dynamic 0: disadvantage".

r_dynamic is 1 by default, and "glow of the powerups can be seen thrught the walls" there for the ages and does't affected by ruleset, this is native for QW.

And, btw, u can controll how light works with more variables, like r_powerupsglow, r_rocketlight, gl_flashblend and what not.

I'm awaits thread like "+mlook CHEAT!"

it is! bigfoot should come up with a fix any second now.. haw haw haw haw

qqshka: blunt, but accurate