Disable the Light on a "Device?"

[thecoolsideofthepillow 22]

I'm just wondering if it's possible to disable the light on the "Device (Assembled)" prop. It has animation states defined, but maybe I'm using the command wrong.

 

_Device animate ["Light_1_rot",1];

or

 

_Device animate ["Light_1_rot",0];

Have no effect. But the light does seem to turn off in the day automatically. I would like to disable not only the light (if it's night time) but also the fans if possible.

[JB47394 30]

I'm also interested in doing this.  I can see the device's SimpleObject.animate values in the config browser, but going through the usual 'animate' experiments yielded nothing.  Is there a way to affect any of the animations listed in an object's SimpleObject.animate property?  Running the device through a startup sequence would be a nice storyline addition.

[7erra 629]

You can disable the light by setting it's damage to 1:

_device setHit ["light_1_hit", 1];
sleep 5;
_device setHit ["light_1_hit", 0];

This will turn the light off and on again.

 

I couldn't find a way to disable the ventilators though.

[BadHabitz 235]

Depending on what your purpose is you could just disable simulation.

[7erra 629]

While enableSimulation works if you want to turn off the light at the beginning of a mission it is not possible to turn it off later on. The light will still shine but not turn around anymore.

[JB47394 30]

On 7/28/2017 at 4:52 PM, 7erra said:

This will turn the light off and on again.

 

Good idea, thanks.  I'll keep that in mind when I'm fooling with it again.