Black Mesa

Black Mesa

Pre-1.0 Styled Flashlight
22 Comments
Blank The Gamer 4 Feb @ 6:57am 
This is bright
AND I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!1
That1Guy_Bruce 17 Jan @ 11:19pm 
how to turn the mod on?
AnomNom 30 Dec, 2024 @ 3:46pm 
not only does this look significantly better than post-1.0's flashlight, but it makes the darker areas where you need to use a flashlight (like during Power Up) actually feel like a horror section
GrrChinmanLarge 22 Dec, 2024 @ 2:35pm 
when i first played black mesa, I thought that the flashlight straight up wasn't there because of how bad it looks. this is so much nicer, thank you!
Marisa Freeman 22 Oct, 2024 @ 1:26am 
does this fix the flashlight not working as intended on surfaces except props and enemies?
spoiledmilk 19 May, 2024 @ 3:34pm 
the light is super laggy for me. how do fix?
Barney Calhoun 12 Jan, 2024 @ 2:49pm 
i also agree
RavenJr 30 Sep, 2023 @ 5:20pm 
i agree it sucks
härjaren 29 Sep, 2023 @ 1:04pm 
The default flashlight in Black Mesa f****** sucks.
Loona 29 Aug, 2023 @ 5:03pm 
it blinks
Kevin from HP Customer Service 24 Apr, 2023 @ 9:58pm 
@1/4 Life

Agreed, even in vanilla, crawling trough vents with a headcrab dead in front of you somehow covers the entire flashlight lol

I get that "the HEV lamp is in the chest" and yada yada but dear lord make a compromise because it looked god awful and nowhere near realistic anyway.
Vassago Rain 6 Oct, 2022 @ 11:13am 
Cuttrogue@
There's way in the skill.cfg to control most aspects of the flashlight, but it's a huge undertaking to get it to do what you want.
Used to be 'static' flashlight mods on the workshop, and more, but most seem to have disappeared.

Note that while skill.cfg by default has a lot of commands for the flashlight, there are actually even more that aren't listed there, and need to be found navigating the console. Once you have what you want, save it to skill.cfg, and enjoy.
finlandslim 5 Oct, 2022 @ 1:42am 
Is there a way to disable sway animation when you turn around and the flashlight kinda lags behind?
gabhoul 29 Aug, 2022 @ 7:54pm 
This mod actually make the game playable on the Steam Deck. This made my day. Every deck users should know ! It fixed the flashlight and texture glitch.
1/4 Life [bazzite.gg] 24 Aug, 2022 @ 1:13pm 
gb_flashlight_shadow_nearZ 6
gb_flashlight_PosY -18

I found adding these to your autoexec makes a huge improvement. NearZ so shadows are cast from objects further than 5 feet from your face, and PosY to make the flashlight usable while crawling through vents (Affects the stock one too)
sunbearingCats 21 May, 2022 @ 5:07pm 
i like the very slight hint of blue
LU-C4 12 May, 2022 @ 12:01am 
There is a "Half-Life 2 Flashlight" mod on the workshop.
1v4n94 11 May, 2022 @ 9:52pm 
ohh, that's sad... I really want the old flashlight back :/
hebert  [author] 11 May, 2022 @ 7:08am 
afaik there are no ways of restoring the old source flashlight system
hebert  [author] 11 May, 2022 @ 7:03am 
@1v4n94 it's still the current bm system, I just made it look like the old one
1v4n94 11 May, 2022 @ 6:39am 
HL2's flashlight is way better since it does not have a delay when moving the cursor, and the new has issues the old one does not.
1v4n94 11 May, 2022 @ 6:38am 
Is the flashlight system the same that can be found in HL2? The flashlight in Black Mesa is currently not my preferred, since it works differently.