As found while writing https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Lightpoint_Tutorial,
the lightpoint's flare (set by setLightUseFlare, setLightFlareSize, setLightFlareMaxDistance):
if (dayTime < 8 || dayTime > 18) then { skipTime (-daytime + 12); };
private _position = player modelToWorld [0, 20, 1.5];
private _lightpoint = "#lightpoint" createVehicleLocal _position;
_lightpoint setLightColor [1,0,1]; // magic pink
_lightpoint setLightAmbient [1,0,0];
_lightpoint setLightUseFlare true;
_lightpoint setLightFlareSize 3;
_lightpoint setLightFlareMaxDistance 10; // <-- not working
_lightpoint setLightBrightness 4;
_lightpoint setLightDayLight true; // <-- not working for flareYou forgot about how https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setLightIntensity overwrites the value of setLightBrightness when clearly they are both different things.
You forgot about how https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setLightIntensity overwrites the value of setLightBrightness when clearly they are both different things.
They are not different. Brightness is a old deprecated way that got replaced by intensity.
Thank you for clearing that up, the wiki warning "This command has been replaced by setLightIntensity. setLightBrightness is now deprecated and should no longer be used." was not present at the time of my comment.
Looking forward to any improvements you are working on regarding this subject ;)
light flares are generally disabled for all lights during night...
Might hurt performance to process flares
Is this worth it?
If that means that we can now have light flares and even simulate flashlights during the day then it is totally worth it!
There are many instances where the mission maker wants to highlight something with a flare rather than just a regular light point. Horror missions specially will benefit from this because even during the day you can have locations lit with spooky flares etc etc.
Thank you so much!
seen with T163387: Lightpoint flares not visible during daytime: apparently not fixed or not merged?
Another change in profiling branch yesterday.
Flares weren't showing up at day time because their brightness was too low.
So now brightness is upped if environment is very bright to make them show up
