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Modding => Work In Progress => Topic started by: Falko on June 27, 2014, 12:53:29 am
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Put 2 elerium and an old fashioned Flare together stir clockwise 3 times, widdershins 2 times, shake it and tada - your tool for a brighter world - the elerium flare :)
[works only correct with the latest nightly! older builds see strange colors near the flare thx@SupSuper for the fast fix]
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May be useful...
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very interesting
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Nice and "shiny", thanks. I added the Turkish translation. Needed to convert the file to UTF-8, so I'm attaching the whole file.
Also, I was curious how it looked before the fix, so I downgraded for a screenshot. Funny stuff:
https://i.imgur.com/J8gdfJB.png (https://i.imgur.com/J8gdfJB.png)
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Nice and "shiny", thanks. I added the Turkish translation. Needed to convert the file to UTF-8, so I'm attaching the whole file.
Also, I was curious how it looked before the fix, so I downgraded for a screenshot. Funny stuff:
https://i.imgur.com/J8gdfJB.png (https://i.imgur.com/J8gdfJB.png)
Octopus ink flare? ;)
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its "negative shadow" there are no light sources bigger than 15 and if you put a bigger lightsource somewhere the shadow visualisation goes to the wrong colors
i suppose now we can have lightsources > 15 for e.g. map items (nightmission in a soccer stadium floodlightning map - anyone?)
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Default lightsources would be lovely for night terror missions. See a civilian cross under a far street lamp and disapear, hear a scream. Next turn, see a zombie walking back under the same lamp.
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Default lightsources would be lovely for night terror missions. See a civilian cross under a far street lamp and disapear, hear a scream. Next turn, see a zombie walking back under the same lamp.
Logical conclusion: shoot the civilian before it crosses the road.
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Nice!
I asked for something kind of like this a while ago.
Is there any chance we can see a time limit attached to flares? e.g. provide light for x amount of turns, or would that require too much coding changes?
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light with timeout is called incendiary ammo :)
i used the IC grenades with the grenade launcher but 2-3 rounds light (without firing into flammable tiles) was not enough for me so i made this
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- type: pl-PL
strings:
STR_ELECTRO_FLARE_ELERIUM: Flara eleryjna
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French
- type: fr
strings:
STR_ELECTRO_FLARE_ELERIUM: Balise Lumineuse Elerium
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Logical conclusion: shoot the civilian before it crosses the road.
Yes, but why did the civilian cross the road.....
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Nice!
I asked for something kind of like this a while ago.
Is there any chance we can see a time limit attached to flares? e.g. provide light for x amount of turns, or would that require too much coding changes?
You're right
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Yes, but why did the civilian cross the road.....
It got curious about the Elerium flare on the other side...
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Make the world a brighter place... and create shadows !
I was sure to have caused a new bug.... but no
Did you see that your Elerium flares are so powerful that unused flares lying on the skyranger's ground create shadows on landing area even during the day
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Quote from: MKSheppard on June 27, 2014, 02:19:58 pm
Nice!
I asked for something kind of like this a while ago.
Is there any chance we can see a time limit attached to flares? e.g. provide light for x amount of turns, or would that require too much coding changes?
You're right
I agree, thus the player has tactic choice to use standard Electro Flares, less light but for the entire combat, or Elerium Flares, more light but light fades each turn (ex: -15%/-20% per turn) and for a limited number of turns (ex: 5-6 turns).
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i see no way to make time-limited lightsource
my intention was creating the choice between cheap flares and better but expensive flares for people with to much money/elerium (and who prefer shooting to HE-weapons)
for timelited lightsource with ~3 rounds you got fire (it even get less with time) better to make the time fire burns modable (so one can make it turns=power/10?)
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And why not an additional Elerium Flare type, substantially the same illumination as an Electro Flare, or just a little more, but also explosion proof (to a certain level).
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i increase the armor of the flare a little bit but not enough to withstand grenades that are dropped directly on the flare
you can increase that if you want an (almost) indestructible flares
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i see no way to make time-limited lightsource
Hmmm... just an idea, but is it possible to give the "emits light" ability to other objects? Maybe we could make a "grenade" that emits light and "explodes" (with strength 0) after a few turns?
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adding ligning to other objects i currently not in the code and you cant create an always primed grenade :(
or i would have made a mission where the alien leader has a preprimed megabomb in his pocket that destroys the whole battelscape so you have to finish the missione in XX turns
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adding ligning to other objects i currently not in the code and you cant create an always primed grenade :(
or i would have made a mission where the alien leader has a preprimed megabomb in his pocket that destroys the whole battelscape so you have to finish the missione in XX turns
Sooo... that sounds like two very useful suggestions
- make it possible to add "light" to any object
- make it possible to add fixed timers to things