Make the world a brighter place - Elerium flare

[Falko]

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]

[Aldorn]

May be useful...

[robin]

very interesting

[Ishmaeel]

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

[Hobbes]

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

Octopus ink flare?

[Falko]

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?)

[yrizoud]

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.

[Hobbes]

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.

[MKSheppard]

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?

[Falko]

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

[Solarius Scorch]

Code: [Select]

  - type: pl-PL
    strings:
      STR_ELECTRO_FLARE_ELERIUM: Flara eleryjna


[Aldorn]

French

Code: [Select]

  - type: fr
    strings:
      STR_ELECTRO_FLARE_ELERIUM: Balise Lumineuse Elerium


[SenniTrebor]

Logical conclusion: shoot the civilian before it crosses the road.

Yes, but why did the civilian cross the road.....

[Aldorn]

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

[Hobbes]

Yes, but why did the civilian cross the road.....

It got curious about the Elerium flare on the other side...