Modding Questions Involving Lights And Weapons

[michiyl]

Discovery Mod General Discussion
Feature requests, suggestions for Discovery, as well as bug reports and modding questions.

Is it possible to give the weapon effects a small area lightsource?

For example, some planets (most of them are big gas giants if I recall correctly) illuminate the whole ship in a certain area in a different light than the one from the system's sun. This effect is added in the .ini of each system.

If it were possible to implement this light source effect in a smaller scale to the projectile of the weapons, it would allow to increase the realism of the mod and make it a lot more enjoyable!

But the question is ... is it possible at all?

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(not just ships! - new features! - more than 24 total so far!)

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(my pirate character is happy to make people flee instead of killing them)

. . . currently doing other things than DFL!

[MarvinCZ]

It is possible, but to work satisfactorily it needs an overhaul of the Freelancer rendering system ... which is also possible. Freeworlds has done just that (both rendering and lights) for their new version. We don't have that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp6VIu4JRRQ

[michiyl]

It is possible, but to work satisfactorily it needs an overhaul of the Freelancer rendering system ... which is also possible. Freeworlds has done just that (both rendering and lights) for their new version. We don't have that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp6VIu4JRRQ

Damn, that's EXACTLY what I meant:D
Thanks!

I'll try to work on a simpler version soon though ... maybe it's possible without the overhaul (^_^)

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Free Rotating Ship/Bases/Weapon/Object Models!

>>> Click HERE!<<<

(not just ships! - new features! - more than 24 total so far!)

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(my pirate character is happy to make people flee instead of killing them)

. . . currently doing other things than DFL!

[Drider]

Dont do this, i will lag in fights then.

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Never forget, never forgive.

[michiyl]

Dont do this, i will lag in fights then.

How can you say this when I even haven't begun the second modding attempt?:D

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Free Rotating Ship/Bases/Weapon/Object Models!

>>> Click HERE!<<<

(not just ships! - new features! - more than 24 total so far!)

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(my pirate character is happy to make people flee instead of killing them)

. . . currently doing other things than DFL!

[MarvinCZ]

It is possible without the overhaul, but then the number of lights is very limited (I can't remember the exact one-digit number) and I *think* it had some sort of bug when we tried it for Broken Bonds... I'm not sure what, though.

So, go ahead and try, you can get at least some results.

[Jason]

Dont do this, i will lag in fights then.

Then this can be optional.


Lighting effects mentioned here is one of Freeworlds Tides of War's advanced graphics techniques, I'd like to see this in Discovery if the devs of Freeworlds don't mind sharing their secrets.:)

Furthermore, I'm sick of people who impede the mod's process with pathetic excuses. I know we try to accommodate everyone but not progressing at all because of a select few isn't an effective development process. :nono:Maybe I care too much about Disco, don't hate me.