My BAT doesnt light up!!!

[sorchin 18]

Hello:

Although I have finally been able to put my BAT on a TE highway in my game, for some reason it doesn't light up. I have read other posts with the same problem but was unable to resolve my problem  Below is a picture of the GMAX and it in my game. I have attempted to create the highway lights both as a PROP (1) and as a BUILDING (2), neither light up. You with see a traffic sign in the 2nd picture as well. I created the light for the sign so I have some experience with lights. But this is the first time I have had problems I can't figure out. See below:

 

 

For the PROP version (1) I have set the lights to true. For the BAT itself both lights I used the nitelite prefix. I checked the lighting in the BAT by using a base and the lights worked. I'm unsure what to do next. Any ideas???

Thanks for your help

 

[Hordijk 18]

Hi,

Did it work in the render? if it didn't gave a light in the render with night view rendering

(But I think you allready knew that just checking)

it's the bat and I saw in your pic the nitelite thing try removing the bracklet between nitlelite and Spot01

[sorchin 18]

Hey Hordijk my good friend.

Thanks for helping me out again I'll give that a try although I doubt it will work since I have already spaced the prefix out before in other BAT's. I probably just have a bad BAT I'll more than likely redo it. I just wanted to check to see if I missed anything. Luckily it's a very small BAT

Thanks again Hordijk. I appreciate it

 

[tungston 19]

Sorchin:  You do need to have no spaces between the prefix and the ID.  Props are inherently hard to light.  If all else fails, if you can use it as a lot, you could use the ingame street light props in the Lot Editor.

Maybe if you post in the more technical BAT forums you could get more informed members to solve the issue. 

[sorchin 18]

Thanks tungston:

I'll try it with no spaces although as I have said I haven't needed to do it before Your right, this is a more technical issue, unfortunatly I find some of the questions I have posted in those forums before barely even get looked at let alone answered

The ingame street lights? That's an idea. Perhaps if all else fails I'll try that

Thanks my friend.

[tungston 19]

Date: 11/1/2005 2:07:56 PM Author: sorchin

Thanks tungston:

I'll try it with no spaces although as I have said I haven't needed to do it before Your right, this is a more technical issue, unfortunatly I find some of the questions I have posted in those forums before barely even get looked at let alone answered

The ingame street lights? That's an idea. Perhaps if all else fails I'll try that

Thanks my friend.

Yes, I know of what you speak. But I won't put my thoughts in print.

 

I have a BAT I use as a building, and a prop, the lights work perfectly with the building, but won't with the prop, not even the night windows.  There must be a way to make them work, I just haven't found it yet.

 

The ingame street lights are hard to work with, because of the placement, and will change location with different views.  But they are better than nothing.

[sorchin 18]

Hello again tungston. Yeah I got the cone lights looking pretty good with the maxis streetlights. it just takes some time getting them to line up Yes I find props to be difficult for whatever reason for lighting

See ya mate