Dynamic FX limit breaking.

As OP said, I dont think there is a .ini way around the 8 light limit since FL uses Direct3D8.

w0dk4 and OP are correct; DX8 only supports 8 point lights. Modern games use shaders to fake additional lights as far as I’m aware, but Freelancer does not support such shaders.

and in Plasmafire?

Can you confirm that PF has more than 8 lightsources?

And include a screen please. Im tired of ppl saying “this and that works” whereas in reality it doesnt.
It was the same for missile use in random missions by npcs, they just dont work, yet 90% say “in my FL they work” - no they dont.

ok
i tested it by myself and it doesnt works ._.

DX8 sucks

It would be too taxing to have more than 8 point lights anyways. The technology behind them is outdated compared to the speed you can get out of shaders. We should be thankful we already have dynamic light support, considering the bewilderingly bad lighting in FL overall.

Will try without hints.
1. Take this http://enbdev.com/enbseries_gtasa_v0073a.zip
2. Learn this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Shader_Language
3. Make effects.txt by writing own HLSL code to beak limit of 8 lightsources in requirement format of ENB Series effects post process
4. Done.

Sushi, w0dk4, FF - is it right way?

Think stable variant = plugin + own HLSL code

ya, you cannot add more than 4 lights per object without some serious client hooking

It’s much more involved than ENB I’m afraid. ENB is just a wrapper that adds post-processing. To do this you need to do more than a wrapper, you need to replace a lot of the functionality.

It’ll take you longer to do it than to wait for us to release it

Thinking about permanent flashing lights hmhmhmhmhm…

Got MaxActiveLights - what does this mean? As is?

This parameter must be written under your videocard ID in the flconfigdatabase.txt