AA Searchlight mod

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What's this?

I was fiddling around with air attacks on ports when I noticed that the Coastal Defence Searchlight doesn't work. Well, it does, but the light beam is transparent and doesn't actually look, like, well, light. Here's a pic:




Well, I thought, what fun. I looked around with Pack3d and came to the conclusion it's some value setting the texture mode that must be incorrect. Since I'm not too familiar with that sort of stuff - though someone like sergbuto might be - I left it alone.

Instead, I added a new configuration option to the AADefense unit - a REF_big searchlight to be exact. This works like a charm. My only reservation is that in a future version I'd edit the 3d model and make the beam about 3x longer for looks. And extend the sensor range for searchlights, so they spot planes out for longer.

Here's a pic of them in action:



There's also a single mission called "luftnachtstreik" that shows off this effect. (Best with IuB).

Also note that I included a guns.zon file which halves the effectiveness of AA rounds. This is necessary to correct the uber power of the AA even in RuB. Hasn't been tested in all situations, though.

Download link
http://rapidshare.de/files/7267736/N...light.rar.html

Feel free to use it any which way you like.

Cheers