Not Too Bright Lights 1.0.0

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.)

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.

Edited October 27, 20169 yr by Wippy

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 :)

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

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.

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.

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" !