If you want to be able to programmatically change the lighting strings you can use the basic idea from the following tutorials (a long and involved series of posts)

https://tomeofpreach.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/text-manipulation-in-quake-i-the-basics/

The crucial change you need to make is to use

float SVC_LIGHTSTYLE = 12;

as the header byte instead of SVC_CENTERPRINT when you send the characters. This may be overkill but it's nice to know there's a way to do it if you need. If you just want a way to translate a float into a light level it's a fairly compact way to do it without some kind of 26 line long if statement.

This trick will be employed in an upcoming project I'm working on... 

a mod that makes their own lightsyles

I remember JPL's "FortDriant" used a recompiled light index for making a long stairway of repulsing light on a long range of 32.

Don't know if its included in the map. 

 

Rubicon 2 has custom light styles 

i've done this
void () execute_changelevel =
{
local entity tmp;
local float bcount;

intermission_running = 1;
intermission_exittime = (time + 5);
lightstyle(0, "f");// R00k: -added- dim light on intermission

oddly I assume the world uses lightstyle 0 looking in the misc.qc for the lights i cant find any reference for the actual numerical value, yet in world.qc, lightstyle (0,"m"); etc.. 

wait ya, .style entity field is a lightstyle thus the world entity inits with self.style = 0; 

It's basically that, except it's the style field on the light entities which matters, not the style of the world entity. When you don't set a style, the field defaults to 0 - even in the light compiler. 

okay so basically all default lights use lighstyle 0 which is why altering
that to a lower value makes it look like nighttime? i set
that for intermissions and on any map it dims the screen
so the scoreboard shows up better ;) pr_lightstyle calls the svc_ to broadcast to all connected clients. 

so I wanted to implement cell shading in my game, and I'm using the makaqu engine because it has cell shading support but more importantly it can be compiled for the dreamcast (I'm making a game for it). When I asked the developer how to implement the cell shading he told me to edit defs.qc and add the line:

float EF_CELSHADING = 16384;

and add this to the model script:
self.effects = self.effects | EF_CELSHADING;

problem is, when I compile it using fteqccgui and place it in my mod pak it still doesn't have cell shaded graphics. I want to add the effect to the player model and the dog, so how would I do this? 

and add this to the model script:
self.effects = self.effects | EF_CELSHADING;

Can you give us a bit more of the context surrounding this line of code, like which function you've added it to? It wants to be in the function which is setting the model of the entity you want cell-shading on. 

I’m looking for QuakeC code for creating cutscenes for a commercial project. I plan to ask whoever originally wrote the code for permission to use it for this, and it’s for a Dreamcast and PC game using the makaqu engine. If anyone can point me in the direction of code for this, I’d like to homogenenise it with my current code (I’m using a little bit of modified code since I can really only read C and C++) to play the beginning of a level. Is there anyone who can suggest some good code for this that’s relatively easy to use? 

Also, I’m putting commands in the world.c code for specific levels, but for some reason it’s not using them. I’m using cvar_set and localcmd. I need these for the game to work. 

NehQC:
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/nehahra/neh_devkit.zip

Are you putting those localcmd's inside worldspawn or startframe? If you use main() it might not work. 

Thanks for your answer! Another question, when I start a demo when the level starts, then the demo exits the level, the game crashes. However, it doesn’t crash the menu screen if I put in startdemo instead of startdemos it goes into the next level which I want this one to do. Is it because I have different cvars coded into both levels? I’m currently at work so I can’t test it yet, but just getting a second opinion. 

I’m using localcmd to start the demo in the start level, which the demo is supposed to spawn the player in e1m1 after the demo plays. 

the typical way to chain demos to maps is to insert an svc_stufftext into the end of the demo to get the client to issue a 'map' console command at the end.
you can't use the changelevel command etc, so all weapons etc will be forgotten. you can work around that with cvars (again eg nehahra) but this makes a mess when it comes to saved games (and potentially restarting the map). 

So just straight up type in svc_stufftext map e1m1 into the console when I want the demo to end? Or do I have to code a timer? 

so I have this coder and he and I can't figure out what is wrong with the code. In Darkplaces, the walking animation works fine, but when I switch to makaqu, it also combines with the attack animation! We don't know whats going on! Any help would be appreciated! 

We will need to see your code. Are you using frame macros? Skeletal or vertex animation? Any QC extensions? 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d_9QqeqCcvltXlA3chu1TgAKagXO0Q5W/view?usp=sharing

not using any extensions, vertex animations 

Just found out that it had too many animation frames! We fixed it! Taking down drive file for security reasons 

Hi guys!

In my upcoming map I have a problem with fiends when they (quite often) kill themselves by leaping at exploboxes. They do give the death sound and add to the kill total, but they kind of end up only half-dead:

-If not gibbed by the explobox, they will remain upright and solid and periodically turn to face the player and leap at them. The attack won't damage the player, though.

-If gibbed, the same behaviour occurs except with just the fiend's decapitated head! Delightful! @~@

Does anybody know if someone's already fixed the bug? 

Multiple exploboxes? 

possible workaround:
make a second entity to surround the explobox, using the 'clip' texture so that the fiend can't hit the explobox itself, and thus can't zombify itself.
add a trigger_once entity inside the explobox and give it a health value, and have it killtarget your clip entity, so that the artificial blocker doesn't continue blocking after the box explodes (unfortunately the explobox doesn't do target/killtarget stuff, hence the separate trigger).

any qc mod that fixes the chained-explobox-not-chaining bug should have also fixed the zombie-fiend bug thanks to adding a small delay before the explobox itself fires.