Rotate Spotlight

[tobinator 41]

Hey guys,

 

I'm just trying to imitate a light tube in a garage but I don't know what I'm doing wrong because it's just shining onto the ceiling but not onto the bottom. I'm using a bunch of small objects which I placed in a row into the tube and this is in the init of these objects:

if (isServer) then {this setPos [getPos this select 0,getPos this select 1,12]; this setVectorUp [0,0,1]}; 
light1="#lightpoint" createVehicle [0,0,0]; 
light1 setLightBrightness 0.15; 
light1 setLightAmbient [1,1,0.7]; 
light1 setLightColor [1,1,0.7]; 
light1 lightAttachObject [this,[0,0,0]]; 
this setPos [getPos this select 0, getPos this select 1,4.2]; 
light1 setLightUseFlare true; 
light1 setLightFlareSize 0.1; 
light1 setLightFlareMaxDistance 500; 
light1 setLightAttenuation [2,4,80,0];
this hideObject true;

and this is how it looks:

 

 

I already tried several things like:

light1 setVectorUp [0,0,-1];

but that doesn't change anything.

 

Does anybody know how to flip the light direction? Or maybe someone has a better idea to imitate the light tube.

 

 

Thanks for every help in advance!

[Tajin 349]

The light has no direction. As the classname #pointlight indicates, it is an omnidirectional point light.

 

I guess  your best bet is to simply place it a bit lower, maybe halfway between the lamp and the floor.

 

 

 

You should also probably make it bigger and a lot softer, those flurescent lamps are pretty bright but rather diffuse.

[tobinator 41]

The light has no direction. As the classname #pointlight indicates, it is an omnidirectional point light.

 

I guess  your best bet is to simply place it a bit lower, maybe halfway between the lamp and the floor.

 

 

 

You should also probably make it bigger and a lot softer, those flurescent lamps are pretty bright but rather diffuse.

 

Okay thank you for your help. Now it's looking better! 

But...

 

...it seems like there's a limit of lightpoints that can be shown at the same moment + it looks a bit weird that the light shines so intense onto the ceiling...I think I need a alternative method to imitate the flurescent lamps. Does anybody knows a alternative?