Flashlight 3.0 3.0

Damn, you beat me to it, just started working on something similar today ;)

Love it! Any chance you can also make it so that your character holds it at his head rather than at his hip?

Awesome. Would be nice if there was an ability to turn off the shadows it casts or at least lower them slightly.

2 hours ago, falcon3y said:

Awesome. Would be nice if there was an ability to turn off the shadows it casts or at least lower them slightly.

Updated with tame shadows. Let me know your thoughts.

3 hours ago, Narobic said:

Love it! Any chance you can also make it so that your character holds it at his head rather than at his hip?

I have tried very hard to find a way to do this with no luck. The light size could be much smaller if the angle was better. Most of my shortcomings in designing this was the fact that the light is held at thigh-level.

4 hours ago, straitdill said:

Damn, you beat me to it, just started working on something similar today ;)

Finish and release it! People need options.

Um yes please!! Fantastic!

I guess this is nice my only problem with the flashlight is how I hate how he holds it I wish there was a different way.

Hey, is it possible that its kind of smaller at the end like a straight shine not like a V
.

Thank you

the video for this looks very weird, especially the shadows around the car at 25 seconds, they look like are not casting on the floor where they should be, but floating behind the light. can also be seen in screenshots 1, 5, 6 and 8.

also, the light texture does not mould around the terrain if you see what i mean. noticeable at 10-15 seconds and in pretty much all screenshots.

really don't like the look of it. sorry.

Edited September 24, 20169 yr by Play3r2

16 hours ago, jg45042 said:

Um yes please!! Fantastic!

Thank you! This mod had several interesting hurdles to navigate around. In the end I think it turned out the best that I could make it, especially with the new texture option.

7 hours ago, Alexander Schwarz said:

Hey, is it possible that its kind of smaller at the end like a straight shine not like a V
.

Thank you

I tried many times to make this adjustment with no luck. GTA shoots the light out in a cone, and while I am able to alter the general diameter of the light, it will still grow as it gets shined out farther. The diameter was decided on not by shining it at a distance, but rather by shining it into cars up close. Too small of a diameter = unable to shine into a vehicle. 

16 hours ago, RoboticGamer said:

I guess this is nice my only problem with the flashlight is how I hate how he holds it I wish there was a different way.

You're not alone there. If I could change it, I would.

3 hours ago, Play3r2 said:

the video for this looks very weird, especially the shadows around the car at 25 seconds, they look like are not casting on the floor where they should be, but floating behind the light. can also be seen in screenshots 1, 5, 6 and 8.

also, the light texture does not mould around the terrain if you see what i mean. noticeable at 10-15 seconds and in pretty much all screenshots.

 

really don't like the look of it. sorry.

The light texture was hidden for quite some time, but I found it in a native rpf file and released a new version without the starburst patterns. As far as the shadows are concerned - anyone who has shined a high power flashlight in the middle of the night knows how sharp, large, and dark the shadows are.

I set out to change the range of the flashlight and not to alter how GTA interprets the behavior of light & shadows on a global scale. 

2 hours ago, BLacKHaLLoW said:

The light texture was hidden for quite some time, but I found it in a native rpf file and released a new version without the starburst patterns. As far as the shadows are concerned - anyone who has shined a high power flashlight in the middle of the night knows how sharp, large, and dark the shadows are.

I set out to change the range of the flashlight and not to alter how GTA interprets the behavior of light & shadows on a global scale. 

What I mean is the shadows look really different to how they're cast default, and in my opinion it looks worse.

I like the idea since the default flashlight is lackluster but isn't your range a little over the top? Watching at the video, you are lighting half a very tall building (0:15). That's no longer a flashlight you are holding but a spotlight...

Edited September 29, 20169 yr by DLM3

On 9/29/2016 at 7:24 AM, DLM3 said:

I like the idea since the default flashlight is lackluster but isn't your range a little over the top? Watching at the video, you are lighting half a very tall building (0:15). That's no longer a flashlight you are holding but a spotlight...

I absolutely agree with this. In my experience, my range isn't off but rather the diameter that it grows to is a bit ridiculous. I should be able to shine a light on the Maze Bank Building up to the roof, but it should stay a reasonable size.  

After I figured out how to change the texture of the light itself, I adjusted nearly every aspect of this mod. I'm hoping to release the final version tomorrow, and I'll also add in a "half-range" option for people who aren't as crazy as I am about light. 

7 hours ago, BLacKHaLLoW said:

 I should be able to shine a light on the Maze Bank Building up to the roof,

what

4 hours ago, Play3r2 said:

what

My Maglite has a range of roughly 400 meters, depending on weather conditions. The Maze Bank building in GTA is about 1,000 feet tall. 

Love the mod man, just wish there was a way you could have the flash light about your shoulder like in real life.

I might sound like a idiot but how the hell do you install this? 0_0

Does this also work on the weapons?

Doesn't work. My flashlight still looks the same and I installed it correctly.

its a good mod but it messed up my game.

@BLacKHaLLoW Do you know how to do something like this for weapon flashlights?
 

I installed correctly but the flashlight doesn't appear at my inventory. Just the baton, no flashlight.

I don't know if you're still supporting this but... this flashlight has started only working on the pistol. No carbine and no pump action light. They've reverted to the useless default light. Any ideas?

Is anyone able to get this to work on FiveM???

On 2/11/2019 at 12:06 AM, OfficerJoseph said:

Is anyone able to get this to work on FiveM???

Yes. You must take the modified files and ArchiveFix them before you add them into your GTA directory.

On 10/4/2016 at 4:00 PM, BLacKHaLLoW said:

My Maglite has a range of roughly 400 meters, depending on weather conditions. The Maze Bank building in GTA is about 1,000 feet tall. 

Are you saying this mod is accurate? 400 meters = 1200 feet. and for everyone saying the range is wrong, you can buy some powerful flashlights and typical police flashlights can shoot 1000 feet no problem

On 3/5/2018 at 1:58 PM, Logans said:

I don't know if you're still supporting this but... this flashlight has started only working on the pistol. No carbine and no pump action light. They've reverted to the useless default light. Any ideas?

I have the same problem, it worked once then went back to the lspdfr default light. Did you ever find a solution? I'm assuming you can either eliminate the default light file,  or rearrange them so the mod loads first, but i dont know where the default light is.