Dynamic Lightning on Beam Bolts

w0dk4

FriendlyFire wrote:
I don’t know about that, I’m pretty sure beam bolts and ALE-based effects both can have light anims on them.

http://www.the-starport.net/archive/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=45991&p=35401&hilit=lgt_effect#p35401

Cold_Void wrote:
but mainly you can’'t use it with beam weapons w/ no ALE fx.

So, does anybody have working dynamic lights on vis_beams ?

Xarian_Prime

I… think i do… Well i coded it anyways… not entirely shure if its “playing” out though as i don’t play my mod much these days…

Goes and has a look…

w0dk4

I have been looking into the issue and it doesnt seem to be possible without severely hacking the FL client

Xarian_Prime

effects.ini

[Effect] nickname = sp_annihilator_01_proj 
effect_type = EFT_WEAPON_PROJ 
vis_effect = sp_annihilator_01_proj 
vis_generic = min_photon_01_proj 
lgt_effect = white_proj_flash 
lgt_range_scale = 10 
lgt_radius = 15

lightanim.ini

[LightAnim] 
name = white_proj_flash 
frame = 0.000000, 215, 215, 215, 2.500000 
frame = 0.200000, 215, 215, 215, 1.000000 
frame = 99999.10000, 215, 215, 215, 1.000000

is about as far as i’ve gotten… most of them work nice… but yeah… not shure if “all” of them work… did u mean the “beams” like from the nomad core power supplys though? havent gottern to them yet … lol… yet

w0dk4

Im talking about vis_beam type effects. They crash FL when the light animation is longer than the lifetime of the bullet or when the bullet hits something before the light anim has done playing.