Advanced Dynamic Light treatment in ACS

DoomerMrT · Post by **DoomerMrT** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 13:25

It is about to be able to define more colors than that RGB stuff at the dynamic light thing.
Since GZdoom has true color support, this could be done in a hexadecimal way via ACS.The command would look like this:

SetDynamicColor(tid, color);

tid = the thing ID of the dynamic light(if it's not a DL,then do nothing)
color = the dynamic light's color, what can be defined in hexadecimal form(F8G477 for example)

The color arg. of the script would override the defined color at the Dynamic thing.

Result: more colorful dynamic lights

Post by **Enjay** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 14:13

I haven't tried this, but it might work. You can already set a thing's special, including arguments, so you might be able to use that to set the arguments that control light colours.

DoomerMrT · Post by **DoomerMrT** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 14:21

No way; the dynamic lights are using 3 args for their colors: Red, Green and Blue.Because of that, I don't think definiing a limebrown hexadecimal code to red would work.

EDIT: Yup, it doesn't work

Post by **Enjay** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 14:27

Yes way

You could (maybe) set all arguments with this:

http://zdoom.org/wiki/SetThingSpecial

SetThingSpecial (tid, 0, 255, 128, 64, 32, 16)

Or whatever values you needed.

DoomerMrT · Post by **DoomerMrT** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 14:32

Just tried it and no luck man.Even with quote marks.Try it, choose a weird color, it is not going to work.

Post by **Enjay** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 14:51

Works for me, with a minor reservation. I can set different colours quite happily. However, changes to the "intensity" parameter do not seem to get applied so I can't change how big the light is.

DoomerMrT · Post by **DoomerMrT** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 14:56

Cool, now do it with codes including letters too! For example: FF33CC

Post by **Enjay** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 15:25

But there's no need. FF=255, 33=51, CC=204

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 16:19

Currently the lights don't check the args. I had to copy them to other variables because they were only bytes back then. However, in the mean time I expanded them to full ints.

I just might change it so that they are used directly for the light color again which would make this work.

Post by **Enjay** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 18:41

The example attached above works - at least it works as I would have expected it to in both 2.2.0 and r69. ie a repeating script cycles the light through a few different colours by changing the RGB arguments. So it must be transferring some of the args somehow. The only thing that doesn't seem to change is the intensity.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 19:40

Even better, Seems I already reverted the change and forgot about it...