Regarding lightstyles

[Dr. Shadowborg]

I'm trying to do a switchable fluorescent flicker type light, I know that the regular light style equates to 32, and I was wondering, while the qc source states that 32-62 are used by the light util for doing switchable lights, are any values above 32 actually used? (It seems like there's only one type of switchable light in stock quake, and that's the normal one...which is also implied by the source...)

Anybody know?

Edit: did an entity list check on e1m1.bsp's lightup lampposts, looks like maybe it uses those separate values for each switchable light, meaning that stock quake only supports a maximum of 30 switchable lights?!

[mh]

Looking through the engine source, there is a protocol limit of 255 for the number of lightstyles. I'm not sure why it was restricted to 62 (especially as the engine define for MAX_LIGHTSTYLES is 64), and this is something that should probably be changed.

The max length of a lightstyle string is definitely set to 64 though, but that only gives you 63 as it needs to be null terminated. No real reason why this can't be dynamically allocated or at least extended.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

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