Necroing my old thread after fiddling some more with this controller.
Turns out I found an elegant solution to problem I had with it - namely, the fact that you can't have separate .sim files for clone ships unless you make them full-on separate models with their own gr2 files and everything.
This meant that if I wanted a neutral version of a ship with lights and non-neutral without, I had to make two copies of all files in ship's folder. Repeat this for many ships and your Sea folder starts to look very fat.
As it turns out, there's a solution for that. HarborObject controller requires a small additional _night texture to work. If controller doesn't find this texture, it doesn't do anything, so one can simply make two skins for a ship:
a) "neutral" skin, that has additional _night texture in textures folder
b) "non-neutral" skin that doesn't have _night texture
So I could now easily make beautifully illuminated versions of all .gr2 format ships, if not for one remaining issue that is crashing Goblin editor while trying to further edit a ship with HarborObject controller... ship does seem to work without problems or CTD's in game, but it blows up Goblin Editor every time
