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Not Too Bright Lights 1.0.0

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After R* messed the lights up, thegreathah released his mod called Bright Lights. After a while BxBugs123 updated his RadianceV mod (which is known to have "OH MY GOD MY EYES GIMME SUNGLASSES RIGHT NOW!" effect). And guess what? They both burned my eyes off as intended. Bright Lights, as thegreathah stated, is just bright without any realism or something. So I decided to share my own tweak based on Bright Lights.

 

So what's changed? Almost all lights were dimmed a bit to be less annoying. Coronas' size was reverted back to vanilla (I think vanilla is just fine). I guess I found sweet spot with those changes, so I hope you like it.

 

INSTALLATION:

Just put the file into update.rpf/common/data. Be sure to use "mods" folder and\or make backups.

 

CREDITS:

Credits go to thegreathah. You probably may edit and distribute this, just credit me (optionally) and thegreathah, and do not ask permission.

 

KNOWN ISSUES:

Taxi lights are brighter than satan's butthole © thegreathah. I will look into this, but seems like I can't do anything now to fix this. Someone made a dark texture for taxi as workaround, but I don't know if you can use it with custom taxi cars, so go check Bright Lights comments section.

 

PLEASE NOTE:

Lighting is actually different on different cars. I can do nothing to make my tweak to be fine with all cars. Modmakers make their vehicles with different amount of light somehow, so some cars may be dim while others may be bright as hell. So please do not complain about it.

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sargecommander

I don't know if you are familiar with the mod B.E.L (Better Emergency Lighting) but makes the corona size smaller or bigger on your preference. How will your mod effect with the corona size, since B.E.L is a carcols.ymt and your mod is a visualsettings.dat? (Here's B.E.L in case you're wondering what I'm talking about.)

 

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On 26.10.2016 at 3:28 AM, sargecommander said:

I don't know if you are familiar with the mod B.E.L (Better Emergency Lighting) but makes the corona size smaller or bigger on your preference. How will your mod effect with the corona size, since B.E.L is a carcols.ymt and your mod is a visualsettings.dat? (Here's B.E.L in case you're wondering what I'm talking about.)

 

As I know, visualsettings.dat file determines only global variable of corona size. Changing corona size in carcols (lightsetting profiles (ids)) is just for flexibility I guess, so final result will be based on global size + variables from specified lightsetting profile. Carcols parameters may just overwrite global ones, so global variable of size might also handle corona size in case it is not specified in certain lightsetting ID in carcols, just to prevent bugs. I don't know how this works exactly, that's why I reverted that global var back to vanilla (compared to Bright Lights original), so if author of B.E.L. says nothing about tweaking visualsettings.dat to achieve those visuals, he probably means that visualsettings.dat corona parameters should be vanilla. If so, then you're good to go.

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17 hours ago, Wippy said:

As I know, visualsettings.dat file determines only global variable of corona size. Changing corona size in carcols (lightsetting profiles (ids)) is just for flexibility I guess, so final result will be based on global size + variables from specified lightsetting profile. Carcols parameters may just overwrite global ones, so global variable of size might also handle corona size in case it is not specified in certain lightsetting ID in carcols, just to prevent bugs. I don't know how this works exactly, that's why I reverted that global var back to vanilla (compared to Bright Lights original), so if author of B.E.L. says nothing about tweaking visualsettings.dat to achieve those visuals, he probably means that visualsettings.dat corona parameters should be vanilla. If so, then you're good to go.

Alright, thanks for the help :)

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2 hours ago, icecold951 said:

How do I put this into the updates.rpf? That's a file, not a folder.

It's a file for you, but it's a "folder" for everyone who has a bit of knowledge of OpenIV and modding in general.

 

But using your logic, you can't put things in files, eh? But, you know, archives are actually files aswell. Can you put some things in .rar archive? Obviously yes. So update.rpf is just another archive, so learn how to use OpenIV and put things into .rpf archives, you can find tutorials and guides on the internet.

 

I'm surprised to see such question on site related to GTA modding.

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icecold951

I've messed around with that concept before, Elder Scrolls, 7dtd, and a couple others, but not in GTA 5.  So OpenIV is tool for these files. Thanks. I wasn't aware of such a tool for GTA 5.

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On 10/26/2016 at 2:28 AM, sargecommander said:

I don't know if you are familiar with the mod B.E.L (Better Emergency Lighting) but makes the corona size smaller or bigger on your preference. How will your mod effect with the corona size, since B.E.L is a carcols.ymt and your mod is a visualsettings.dat? (Here's B.E.L in case you're wondering what I'm talking about.)

"CORONA-SIZE" !

 

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