Originally posted by rwhunt99
Well scifiguy;
in your light properties panel, there is an "E" button right next to the intensity setting. This indicates that your light can be animated and the "E" means envelope. Just click on that and it will automatically open up the Graph editor. There you can set up and keyframe your light's intensity.
For a flashing light, you might want to first set intensity to 0%and keyframe it. then when you want it to flash, just keyframe it again to the intensity desired. at the bottom area of the editor, if you set a keyframe or move the slider to a keyframe, you will see a couple of settings with Keyframe and value of the Keyframe. Below it there are other settings. These allow you to setup a behaviour. click on post behaviour and you can set the behaviour to several different things. I would set it to constant. Then to the right, you should see a button that says "incoming curve" it should be set to the default "TCB Spline" you can click on it and at the bottom, there should be an option called stepped. That is the one I would use. The nice thing is that you can see immediately the results of your tweaks in the editor. Play around with the different settings and see how it affects the flashing, you can get quite different effects with it.
The graph editor is very powerful and while it might look a bit scary at first, you will soon realize that it is fairly easy to work with. I would suggest reading the manual about the Graph editor to get a better feel for what you can do with it.
I hope this helps you out I know it's a bit late :p
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OMG, I really feel stupid now! I knew that! :headbang:
But you know how it is,,first your mind goes then everything else. Thanks guys ,Works great