Can anyone help with dimming lights? (Resovled) | Forums

[MrBones_187]

So I need to make a light source go from bright to dim, the effect I'm goin for is more like a pulse then flickering. I know I need a light event and a data source, and I can make the light flicker or toggle on and off as fast as I want but for the life of me I can't make it just dim then brighten back up, I'm almost positive it has to be some small detail I'm overlooking, so after hours of trial an error I decided to ask the community for help, so if anyone has any tips or can help me figure it out it would be greatly appreciated

[rlmergeuser]

Tie the brightness value of the light object to a datasource. Then you can use set value events to change the datasource value from low to high. I do this in my latest track with a light that is at 20 brightness that pulses up to 35 when you hit it.

[MrBones_187]

Thanks bro, that makes perfect sense I didn't even think about a set value event lol I knew I had to be over looking something small, thanks again

[rlmergeuser]

I know the topic is resolved but you might find this interesting...

I used 2 linear data sources. One going from 35 to 0 over 0:75 seconds and another doing the opposite (35 to 0). Each data source is tied to TWO SEPERATE lights occupying the same space. One is white, one is red. Use a trigger to change state to Enabled on the data sources. And hey presto, you have lights that fade from one colour to another. Have a look at my Panel Madness track (not the beta) - I used this process right at the beginning.

[MrBones_187]

Thanks for the tip lol that's actually my next step to fade in an out with different colors oh and I figured out if you have just 1 light with a single color you can just tie the light intensity to a quadratic ease in data source with the looping and invert second half boxes checked and the light source dims and brightens back up to give it the pulse effect I was originally after thank you guys for the tips I'll be sure an put em to good use!