Searchlights or focused lightsources - how to?

[Polygon 11]

A3 is missing searchlights and other useful objects.

How do you create a focused lightsource for immitation?

Example: http://i1305.photobucket.com/albums/s553/Heripai/ArmA3/color800065003500_zps57f6cb78.jpg

[Polygon 11]

anything? if not possible, then a similar addon must happen...

[Kydoimos 916]

You could try using either the single or double portable light, attaching it to something, then using the hideobject command. Might work?

[evans d [16aa] 12]

Where would this "portable light" be in the editor?

[Polygon 11]

Where would this "portable light" be in the editor?

nowhere. there's no such object as a portable light, only 4 lights attached on a pole at military bases and all.

[Magirot 14]

In ArmA 2 you could use classname #lightpoint (_light = "#lightpoint" createVehicleLocal <position>) to create lights, and then commands like setLightBrightness, setLightAmbient, setLightColor, lightAttachObject etc to adjust them, but as far as I know, they'll be balls of light radiating everywhere instead of focused light sources. Plus I'm not sure if they even work in A3.

[wok 1]

As magirot said, you can do some stuff with lights in A3 the same way it was in Arma 2. Try spawning on the editor at night on a place with not much lighting, and run something like this on the debug console:

_light = "#lightpoint" createVehicle position player;
_light setLightColor [255,255,180];
_light setLightAmbient [1,1,0.6]; 
_light setLightAttenuation [0.5,0,0,300]; 
_light setLightIntensity 9000;
_light setLightFlareSize 0.5;
_light lightAttachObject [player, [0,5,2]];

Edited November 15, 2013 by wok

[KevsNoTrev 44]

FYI - dev branch just added "drawLightSize for simple point light"

[Kydoimos 916]

nowhere. there's no such object as a portable light, only 4 lights attached on a pole at military bases and all.

Check the config. viewer. It's not as if I'm making it up.

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Here: "Land_Portablelight_Single_F" or "Land_Portablelight_Double_F".