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Hack Request: Upping the Show Limit for Equipped Lights (to enable Flare Stars)
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EDIT: I've altered the title from simply "Flare Stars" to the present one, to emphasize what I'd like to achieve.
I finally found the time to test the flare star idea I mentioned a few weeks ago. The idea was the increase a regular blinking light up to a stellar scale, to create a variable star. It works, and looks great I must say! But only within a limit of 9.9 K (K being the FL in-game unit). Beyond that, the whole thing disappears from screen. Also, when the center of it disappears from screen, the entire thing also becomes invisible. Which is too bad. I'm hoping you can help me with expanding this limit! I assume this problem might typically be overcome with a hack, like most of the game's default limits. The entries I used: In Light_Equip.ini : Quote: [Light] In SolarArch.ini : Quote: [Solar] * I took this one from planet_storm_5000, and expanded it to 500000 to test if this does what I want, but it doesn't In Solar/Loadouts.ini : Quote: [Loadout] In the Star System's ini: Quote: [LightSource]
Posted on: 2011/2/5 18:49
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*Bump*
I'm not impatient, but I don't wanna let this one sink down. Although FL is a beautiful game, there is not much we can do with the scenery (other than making up textures, arranging objects and setting the system lights) and this flare stars will really add something, visually. I wish I would know how to make (and post) video's, so I could convince y'all.... Anyway, just imagine a slowly blinking light bulb like you can put on the stations and ships, but then enlarged by a few 1000 times. It's like a star that grows and shrinks (sounds silly maybe, but it looks great - and many real stars actually do this - even the sun, by 0.1 % over an 11-year cycle) I guess it'll be nice to superimpose this on a regular star, but I didn't do so in my testing. And even that looked great. Except that you had to get withn 9.9 K to see anything at all, and make sure the center of the 'star' was within you screen. These are the things that need to be fixed. I'm quite sure the first one is a simple hack. No clue about the second one - it is reminiscent of the problem with custom ships in the old days, which, iirc, was overcome when custom SURs were improved. But there is no SUR for a light bulb... So, I hope this is also just a simple hack. BTW doesn't this issue also occur for the neutron star effect?
Posted on: 2011/2/6 12:49
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I tested your star in-game and I noticed that it has similar problems to the Neutron Star effect (which I can't get to show up beyond a distance of around 30k.) Something else I noticed, I put it inside a star and the view distance decreased to about 7k. Since it's "procedurally generated" by ini files I'm wondering where the lod ranges for lights and beam effects are defined, because it's probably not handled in quite the same way as normal ale files.
Posted on: 2011/2/6 13:02
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Or you could combine an ALE with a traditional sun and get the added bonus of not recycling (and enlarging waaay beyond recommended size) the extremely crappy sarma texture over and over again with no hope of changing it.
Posted on: 2011/2/6 15:02
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Code: freelancer.exe 213EC8 10000f = maximum draw distance of lights ~adoxaAt least, I think it's just lights. Couldn't figure out the center bit.
Posted on: 2011/2/7 7:12
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