[1.1.1] Reactor prototype ignores light settings

[kirazy]

The light can be omitted, set to zero intensity and size, use_fuel_glow_color can be set to false, but the light gonna light. In color.

working_light_picture seems to respect the use_fuel_glow_color setting, but the light is stubbornly ignoring everything.

Removing fuel_glow_color from each of the fuel-cell prototypes however brings this result:


Please to let me turn off the area light, I want nice colored new lights. :C

[kirazy]

The Boiler prototype similarly creates a light (even if you kill the light in the energy_source definition) so long as the fuel has a fuel-glow color set.


Is this a bug or do I need to make an interface request so that we can use the 1.1 light layers/properties to achieve the vanilla 1.1 behavior with lights tinted by fuel color?

[Klonan]

This is probably the 'light_flicker' of the burner energy source,

For instance we turned it off in the nuclear reactor like this:

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    energy_source =
    {
      type = "burner",
      fuel_category = "nuclear",
      effectivity = 1,
      fuel_inventory_size = 1,
      burnt_inventory_size = 1,
      light_flicker =
      {
        color = {0,0,0},
        minimum_intensity = 0.7,
        maximum_intensity = 0.95
      }
    },

The color of the light flicker is set to {0,0,0}, so that the intensity is still available for the working visualization

For now I will move this to modding help

[kirazy]

This is probably the 'light_flicker' of the burner energy source

light_flicker is turned off the same as in your code example with color = {0, 0, 0}.

There is no light property defined.

use_fuel_glow_color = true.

default_fuel_glow_color = green, basically.

I would expect with this configuration to have a reactor that doesn't have the general area light, but this is what I see:



The same is true for the energy source of the boiler (having had previous experience trying to kill the ambient light with Angel's blast furnace).

Am I missing something?

[Klonan]

light_flicker is turned off the same as in your code example with color = {0, 0, 0}.

There is no light property defined.

use_fuel_glow_color = true.

default_fuel_glow_color = green, basically.

You set the flicker color to {0,0,0}, and then you overrode it with the fuel glow color,
So the color will then not be {0,0,0}

[kirazy]

light_flicker is turned off the same as in your code example with color = {0, 0, 0}.

There is no light property defined.

use_fuel_glow_color = true.

default_fuel_glow_color = green, basically.

You set the flicker color to {0,0,0}, and then you overrode it with the fuel glow color,
So the color will then not be {0,0,0}

...So how do I make the energy_source light_flicker ignore the fuel_glow_color property? Or am I stuck having ambient glows?

Edit: I want it for the working_light, I don't want it for the energy_source.

[kirazy]

Ah, got it. You have to zero out the light size. You can't zero out the intensity, because then you lose the flicker effect.