Author Topic: Nav Guide Lights (Read 11976 times)

'Captain' Nick Brown · **on:** July 25, 2001, 05:05:00 pm

Would anyone be able to make a small MOD for me? I would like some navigation lights for FS2, similar to NavBouys, but instead they are lights.

Perhaps, you could make a tiny invisible model and use the thruster glow for the light. The same way as the Karnak reactor glows.

Can it be done? Do you know what I'm talking about? Will anyone do it for me please?

Thanks.
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Taristin · **Reply #1 on:** July 25, 2001, 05:11:00 pm

ooooh thats easy! Hell, I could even do it...

Maybe, when would you need it?

Nico · **Reply #2 on:** July 25, 2001, 05:17:00 pm

yeah, that's easy, just make a rectangle and map it with a map called "invisible.pcx" (or transpaerent don't remember), and put the glows where you want. Don't forget tha yo need at least 2 glows per light (one front, one back),, and that the glow limit for a model is around 14 (I have a bad remembrance about this

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'Captain' Nick Brown · **Reply #3 on:** July 25, 2001, 05:40:00 pm

Can someone make this for me? I need it for the first mission in the Alpha Quadrant campaign. I have to finish the Alpha Quadrant project first, so there's no rush.

Thanks guys!

DragonClaw · **Reply #4 on:** July 25, 2001, 05:41:00 pm

yes its invisible.pcx

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'Captain' Nick Brown · **Reply #5 on:** July 25, 2001, 05:46:00 pm

Can you imagine it? Seeing your flagship coming out of spacedock and following the guide lights to the Jump Node?

You know the kind of lights I'm talking about, right? You know, the ones you see in a lot of science fiction movies.

By the way, I've added a load of screenshots and another MOD to my site. Check it out at www.geocities.com/gtva3000

Sandwich · **Reply #6 on:** July 25, 2001, 06:00:00 pm

Hehehe - cool idea, Capt. Really neat!

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'Captain' Nick Brown · **Reply #7 on:** July 25, 2001, 06:03:00 pm

Thanks man

I just hope it will look as good as I picture it in my head...

Joey_21 · **Reply #8 on:** July 25, 2001, 06:20:00 pm

I believe I could make it for you.

Send me glow specs to my email [email protected]

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'Captain' Nick Brown · **Reply #9 on:** July 25, 2001, 06:21:00 pm

Can you send me an e-mail at [email protected] to discuss it? Thanks Joey_21. Are you still happy with the Isis skin I made for you?

<edit> I didn't realise you left your email... disregard what I just wrote and standby for an email.

<edit2> That's not your correct e-mail address... two _'s?
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Joey_21 · **Reply #10 on:** July 25, 2001, 06:41:00 pm

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Originally posted by 'Captain' Nick Brown:
<edit2> That's not your correct e-mail address... two _'s?

I made an edit. Yes, it's supposed to have 2 _'s but I put one too many 0's in.

Sandwich · **Reply #11 on:** July 25, 2001, 06:44:00 pm

Too bad there's no way to make them blink on and off in sequence, like runway lights..

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'Captain' Nick Brown · **Reply #12 on:** July 25, 2001, 06:47:00 pm

What if you make a sexp to disable-enable the engines back and forth (if you make the model with an engine subsystem)?

Joey_21 · **Reply #13 on:** July 25, 2001, 07:09:00 pm

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Originally posted by 'Captain' Nick Brown:
What if you make a sexp to disable-enable the engines back and forth (if you make the model with an engine subsystem)?

That'd probably work. Want me to add that on to the model?

'Captain' Nick Brown · **Reply #14 on:** July 25, 2001, 07:15:00 pm

Yes please!!!

Sushi · **Reply #15 on:** July 25, 2001, 08:16:00 pm

No, don't do it that way! Just use the police light approach- have a one or two rotating bars going around the light, or maybe a C-shape! True, it would only blink in two dimensions, but it would make it a lot easier for the missions, and IMO would look cooler.

Too bad FS2 doesn't have true dynamic lighting. You could have a mission in a black dust cloud nebula, and the only source of light was the buoys and other ships. Talk about your suspense...

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'Captain' Nick Brown · **Reply #16 on:** July 25, 2001, 08:25:00 pm

If you want to download the current version - go to the FS2 MOD section of www.geocities.com/gtva3000

Joey_21 · **Reply #17 on:** July 25, 2001, 08:27:00 pm

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Originally posted by Sushi:
have a one or two rotating bars going around the light, or maybe a C-shape

Wouldn't work. There's no way to glue the glows onto rotating parts...

Sandwich · **Reply #18 on:** July 26, 2001, 01:04:00 am

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Originally posted by Joey_21:
Wouldn't work. There's no way to glue the glows onto rotating parts...

No, that's not what he means. He's talking about making the light as originally planned, and then having a simple rotating part around the light that would block out the light every time it rotates. Think like a big spinning letter "O" with the light in the center.

EDIT: Whoa! Brainstorm here! If you did the above, you could actually have the lights blinking on and off in sequence down a line (from a jump node to a station). How?

Say you make a path defined by four lights per section - top, bottom, left and right. In the mission SEXPs, have each section of lights appear (or warp in without the warp effect) a number of miliseconds, say 100, after the one previous in line to it. If you place these sections at 500 meter intervals, you would have 5 kilometers of line appearing each second. Of course, you could speed up or slow down things by modifying just about anything...

Wow, I can't wait to put this into effect!

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Joey_21 · **Reply #19 on:** July 26, 2001, 02:06:00 am

Hmmmmm, I get it. Are you going to try this experiment or something?

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