You need a disco strobe light. That way you can have random colored lights, induce nausea, and require DarkPlaces all at the same time.

Keep in mind that the flashlight wouldn't work at all in default GL engines unless the user set gl_flashblend 0. Moreoever, you're going to require the player to bind and use another key, making the control scheme more complicated. You will have to choose very carefully which key you want to bind it to or else you'll mess up the player/mapper's existing binds.

Flashlights are gimmicks. There's nothing you can do with a flashlight that you can't do without, and more importantly it doesn't come across as a gimmick when you do it without. 

and I think...

waiting for christmass? 

hehe i will finish my map sooner i think :) i will start another for sure... but now going to holydays 3 weeks i might map a litle becouse i got a small computer... 

just make it a seperate weapon, so that you have to switch back and forth between gun and light. That way the controls don't have to change at all. 

make it worldspawn specified, so one map could be darker and while in it, the flashlight is simply on, so the player doesnt change controls at all, theyre just simply in a darker level only with the ability to reveal some of the environment at a time 

scar3crow's idea teh best0r 

Reading the whole thread, but sounds neat. If anyone can join, I wouldn't mind doodling a base-map in Radiant if sign-ups aren't done with. 

JUST DONE USE A FLASHLIGHT AT ALL (OMG)


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Seriously, I want to make a quake map, not a doom 3 map. 

Be sure you put at least one imp behind every door, too. 

don't have to use the fucking flashlight in your map if you don't want to. Do you really feel it necessary to kill the momentum I have just so that you can adhere to some twisted version of "quake purity"? 

I think a flashlight would be cool if done with integrity to Quake. If not, that's OK too.

Other than that, I intend to make some sort of hybrid base/metal map or, more likely, a hybrid base/void map, since it seems a little more obvious/on theme. I'll see how the arguments go from here, and adjust accordingly. 

cool idea :) 

Hehe, yeah. It could be a "dimensional experiment GONE TERRIBLY WRONG". 

Go play Doom 3. 

all this melodrama surrounding the flashlight. If it's not too difficult to implement and a mapper wants to use it then why shouldn't they be able to? It's not as if anybody's going to be strapped down and forced to play the map. 

Who's participating? I got me down for a base/void map. Anyone else know what kind of map they're gonna make, what order they'll be in, who's the "lead" et al ? 

a lost mine original flashlight looking thing. 

The Timegate Complex.

:> 

making a base carved into a mountain face. Industrial style idbase map whaaaay 

Terrifying journey through a base, after which the player realizes the terrible journey was actually through his own mind. 

Good to see all these maps started! I just hope this project doesn't suffer from "natural terrain comp" issues. I think that if nobody is able to finish maps they should put them up for adoption and let others finish them or perhaps graft parts into their own maps if possible.
Than - you are a clever man! Can you make a spike shooter target the player so it follows them like a turret in Half Life? Why wouldn't lasers work?
I vote Zwiffle for team leader - though not the best mapper on this thread, he has a strong record of actually finishing his projects. 

There is a Sadlark level that emulates this pretty well with a spike attack. I forget which one it is though. The situation involves clearing out a bunker area. You move from side to side and the spike is positioned to appear to fallow. Pretty cleverly done, but it can be refined even further. 

sadlark 4 wasnt it ? 

It can't follow the player! It would just pop up from the floor and the shooters would fire when it pops up. It can use spikes or lasers. I will try and make it when I have time, but I think anyone should be able to figure out how to do it. 

that could be something for the modified progs.dat ?

A turret that pops up and can fire lazer / grenade / rocket etc...

Could also specify if it comes out of the floor (rises) or down from the ceiling (falls).

Could be quite useful I think, and a model should be easy as it needs no animation (really...)