Originally posted by LtNarol
great job on this Bobboau...although i do have a couple of things on my wishlist:
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sexp/event triggered glowpoints both blinking and non. This would be useful for dock points so that blinking lights are triggered whenever a ship is lining up for docking (this would best be done through a sexp such as illuminate-dockpoint).
be really convenient if the color of the glow can be selected in a model editor instead of refering to a specific glow effect, although it would be even better to keep both options available. Kinda like the hud setup in the first option.
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Well, actually I speculated a bit about lights, before bobboau began this thread. But the way I would have done them if able, where to add them as sub objects / subsystems of the ship. But again I’m not sure if this could even work with the current POF format. because I presume PCS will write any properties maybe even specials into a poffile or else my idea would not work.
The properties would be
Life = X; how long this thing glows 0 or better -1 for a constant light
Delay = X; how long this thing does not glow to start with (so you can have running lights or any other combination)
Off = x; how long this thing is off while not giving light.
And RGB (red, green and blue); defined in the subsystem section in the table file so you could set what kind of color to light should have.
That way you could let the artist have complete control over the light "show".
And finally not have the needed sub-object rendered just like when thrusters are disabled. Or the artist could make the object very small.
Regarding the dock lights. That would require some special light sub objects/systems that would only trigger on dock so it should be named something special like dockglow[01], so the engine knows where to start and where to end. Again this would require the model to have suspended lights.
But this is all way off my schedule (and for now, capability) and just a thought. But something I will look at eventually. But for know I let it rest as I let bobboau do the work so I might not have to do that.
It is after all, his project (first come, first served)
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Nice work. You are doing great!.
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