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Title: Temporary Light Sources
Post by: Liberator on March 27, 2010, 12:43:50 pm

Would it possible to add a type of momentary flash that behaves like the "sun" objects for things like bombs or capital ship deaths?  Not talking white outs or anything but even in space, when a fusion bomb goes up there's usually a hell of a flash.

Title: Re: Temporary Light Sources
Post by: Fury on March 27, 2010, 01:04:55 pm

Already done. (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=68214.0) Or check out this wiki entry (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Script_-_Flashy_Deaths_(new)).

Title: Re: Temporary Light Sources
Post by: Liberator on March 27, 2010, 04:56:40 pm

Ok, maybe I'm not remembering it right, but why isn't this standard?  IE with a flag in the game/launcher/whatever

Title: Re: Temporary Light Sources
Post by: Nuke on March 27, 2010, 06:05:59 pm

this looks like it just does a screen flash, would be cool if this worked at a lightning level. if something goes off behind you, then everything in front of you should light up bright with reflected light.

Title: Re: Temporary Light Sources
Post by: Fury on March 28, 2010, 12:30:24 am

Yes, it doesn't add lighting sources but it does add a flash whenever a ship dies.

Perhaps that could be next stage of script's evolution. Assuming scripting can do that.

Title: Re: Temporary Light Sources
Post by: Aardwolf on March 28, 2010, 08:35:19 pm

I remember one of WMC's builds had scripted lighting.

Title: Re: Temporary Light Sources
Post by: Nuke on March 28, 2010, 10:53:42 pm

scripting doesn't have any control over lighting at the moment.

Quote from: Aardwolf on March 28, 2010, 08:35:19 pm

I remember one of WMC's builds had scripted lighting.

when was this?

Title: Re: Temporary Light Sources
Post by: Aardwolf on March 29, 2010, 12:09:12 pm

I can't seem to find it.  :(

I'm pretty sure it was WMCoolmon, or possibly Wanderer... or taylor? Bleh. It was an experimental build, and you could add lights in one of the hooks... the lights only lasted one frame, however.

Edit: I tried looking at all the posts in Test Builds made by WMC, but either it wasn't there, or I missed it somehow.

Title: Re: Temporary Light Sources
Post by: Aardwolf on April 01, 2010, 10:18:38 pm

:bump:

Has anyone had any better luck finding the thread than I did?

Obviously this is a double post, but since editing it won't bump the thread...

Edit: nonetheless, here's some info I found... in this post by WMC (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=56192.0) there is mention that "minor light info functions for scripting (gr.Lights, light handle)" were added, but that there were "no creation functions yet". That said, I'm pretty sure there was a later version which worked. If anyone can find the post, that'd be awesome.

On a related note, does WMC still exist?