Navigation lights

[rhinoferox]

Many thanks for the work of the modders
I saw a lot of magnificient réalisations for SH5
but i haven't seen any mod for activation of navigation lights
is it so hard to implement ?

[gap]

Originally Posted by rhinoferox

i haven't seen any mod for activation of navigation lights
is it so hard to implement ?

Fitting navigation lights on neutral shipping (if you meant that) is relatively easy, and it is actually in my todo list.

[alphasephirot]

Originally Posted by gap

Fitting navigation lights on neutral shipping (if you meant that) is relatively easy, and it is actually in my todo list.

Yes!!! Make it happen!!

[Zky]

That would be great, I always thought it was a bit to dark out there

[gap]

Originally Posted by alphasephirot

Yes!!! Make it happen!!

Originally Posted by Zky

That would be great, I always thought it was a bit to dark out there

What is needed, is creating proxy copies of ship classes to be used as neutral vessels, and equipping them with navigation lights and/or lit-up windows through their eqp files. That easy. The one complication, is creating the "luminous objects", and the nodes/bones on ship models that they will be attached on. I wonder why no one has done it before.

Most people are scared by new file formats is what I think is the problem.
SH5 is alot more open to modding in some ways then again it is closed to what alot of old timers are use to.

Given TDW does some more of his magic on the GR2 program? I can see things changeing for the better.

[THE_MASK]

There is a lit ship outside the bunker in Memel if using open horizon 2 .

[gap]

Originally Posted by sober

There is a lit ship outside the bunker in Memel if using open horizon 2 .

Yep, that's the hospital ship, but her lights are directly placed on the 3d model, so we are not currently able to use her in any other role than as an hospital ship or neutral liner. Had we made her lights external, we could have used the same model as a troop transport or for any other scope.

The beauty of the SHIV & 5 system, is that we can customize ships' types, color schemes, sensors, external equipments and, in part, their specifications, without having to clone their hull every time. This is done by creating "proxy" ship classes and by setting their cfg, eqp and sns files appropriately. The cloned ships can be set for being identified under the same class as their parent unit, or as a completely new class.

Perhaphs the biggest freedom comes from equipment customization. Give this term the wider possible meaning: from armament to superstructure, masts, lights, light-ship lanterns, barrage balloons, smoke screen launchers and even sirenes and flare-guns (as done by TDW for FXU). These are just few examples, but there is no limit to what we can do with a good dose of fantasy and some free time. Also note that many of the above features are not only cosmetic, but with the right combination of controllers and, sometimes, with some trickeries, they can be made fully functional