seems like the flashlight is just off at all times

cuz i cant see that far when playing in the dark

is there a way that you can make the flashlight go farther?

Is it really a surprise a flashlight addon may conflict or break the flashlight functions of other addons...

This mod seems to break TFA weapon flashlights

@Zelen the kiwi I looked in the source engine's code and the behavior you're talking about is all hard-coded and can only be triggered by using the default flashlight. If there is a way to do it, it's probably way beyond my skill

they do not. my best guess is the game tells alyx when your flashlight turns on but if a flashlight mod changes the flashlight at all the game cant tell when its on

@Zelen the kiwi I don't think I can, I think that's hard coded behavior. Do other mods work there?

can you please make it work with ep1_c17_00 and ep1_c17_01? the areas with alyx break if your mod, or any other flashlight mod is installed

Nevermind, I just went through my addons to make sure nothing was fucking with it, and Dynamic Flashlight was, oopsie

It's not working, even when I apply the config the flashlight doesn't change

Still checking today enabling/disabling.
It appears so since it's disabled. Thanks for the time still!

@Charmyzard The addon doesn't do anything permanent so if it happens with it disabled I'm not sure it was 100% caused by it

Even with the addon disabled, my flashlight is still gone. This didn't happen before I got this mod.

what if a player holds a weapon will it be still on his head?

My better flashlight doesn't exist anymore
"F" is now useless and I'm in the dark.

@Hatman That scares me... Because I fixed that a long time ago, in what map/place did it happen?

i was playing on a dark map with his mod and the flashlight started flickering randomly and i nearly shat myself🥀

Also because the glow floating above the player looks somewhat strange

Is the older version of the addon available? Being able to customize where on the player the flashlight comes from was a really good feature

Does this also work for Half-Life 2 Episode 1 campaign?

I fixed the issues regarding multiplayer, I tested it with 2 Gmod instances on a local server and it seemed to work fine (before I was consistently getting the issue everyone reported)

when used in multiplayer it seems like it gets rid of flashlights entirely for clients that AREN'T the server owner and this error log would show up in their console

[Better Flashlight [v1.0]] lua/autorun/sh_better_flashlight.lua:247: attempt to index a nil value

unknown - lua/autorun/sh_better_flashlight.lua:247
unknown - lua/dlib/modules/hook.lua:904 (x738)

@NyanCatGamer02 Noted. Seems like I forgot to change the convar

@Enviyon That's supposed to be the default behavior of the flashlight, but it depends on the player-model, some can be done right and some can be bugged so the flashlight is at your feet

@Dr. Doodle >:) There was. But it was kinda unintuitive went against the idea of making the flashlight always come from the player's POV

@Topher2009 Noted. I'll try to fix it (I'll see if I can get help from some friends to test it out in multiplayer)

this is really cool cause i've always had kind of a problem with how dim the gmod flashlight is and i really like this cause it makes it brighter.

The name of the map in the video?

mod no longer works in multiplayer

Coulda sworn there was an option where you could customize where the light beam shines from...

downgrade

I liked it when I could put a flashlight on my left hand or on my right hand

besides, there are a lot less settings than i remember, it's hard to fully customize it now

Unknown command: cl_betterflashlight_local_player_always_firstperson (x6)

This pops up in the console everytime I change the "Only allow shadows for local-player"

[Better Flashlight [v1.0]] lua/autorun/sh_better_flashlight.lua:247: attempt to index a nil value
1. unknown - lua/autorun/sh_better_flashlight.lua:247
2. unknown - lua/dlib/modules/hook.lua:904 (x14761)

flashlight is awsome sauce now

Thank you for making a way much better flashlight :)

[Better Flashlight [v1.0]] lua/autorun/sh_better_flashlight.lua:247: attempt to index a nil value
1. unknown - lua/autorun/sh_better_flashlight.lua:247
2. unknown - lua/includes/modules/hook.lua:313

Ulib seems to be conflicting with this addon on multiplayer

[Better Flashlight [v1.0]] lua/autorun/sh_better_flashlight.lua:247: attempt to index a nil value
1. fn - lua/autorun/sh_better_flashlight.lua:247
2. unknown - lua/ulib/shared/hook.lua:109
dunno what it's about, hopefully you can make heads or tails of it

It took an entire day for steam to check it's not malicious stuff, wow. Anyways there u go

nice

And also keep in mind the main difference of the addon is to show the flashlight from the player's actual POV, and not their playermodel hand/head

@Annex I tried to solve this by making the flashlight shadows start further away from the actual flashlight position if there was enough space, it worked fine with the playermodels I tested but every playermodel is different so I'll make it adjustable instead

I'm also reworking, adding and fixing other stuff

Good news! I think I have finally found a fix for the "flickering"

@GermanPlasma I don't really play TTT2 but maybe they overwrite the flashlights behavior in some way?

I'll revisit this and see if I add/fix stuff, thx y'all for commenting tho

flashlight fov setting needed

can you add the flashlioght fov to make it big or small