1 hour ago, Ranger61 said:

I look forward to some kind of tutorial explaining the steps. @Captain14 first post is a nice start. Also, how did you see that number sequence. I still don't see 010101, etc That sound like some Dr. Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson's character in the movie Sphere) type skills. :D

0 is off, 1 is on. It's a 32 bit unsigned integer and the sequence of bits determines the flash pattern. So 0101 would be off, on, off, on. You can totally customize these settings and the game will cycle through the pattern you give it X times per minute (sequencerBpm value).

4 minutes ago, Captain14 said:

0 is off, 1 is on. It's a 32 bit unsigned integer and the sequence of bits determines the flash pattern. So 0101 would be off, on, off, on. You can totally customize these settings and the game will cycle through the pattern you give it X times per minute (sequencerBpm value).

Awesome... I'll have to see what I can come up with.

Okay so I've done a little bit more research and also tested out a few other flash patterns.

• It is possible to enable environmental lighting for coronas (visible in video). You have to set the "light" value to true to enable it.
• I do not yet know if it is possible to enable environmental lighting without using coronas. I am going to further research this.
• All lights seem to be placed into two groups (0 and 1), I am not yet sure what these groupings determine.
• "delta" and "start" values under the flashiness section determine the rotation of the light mesh and corona when active. 
• You can change how much the sirens scale when enabled.

Here is another quick demo video. I played around with the explorer a little and altered the flash patterns some more: 

The valor is using siren7 and siren8. The rear window lights are using siren2 and siren5. The grille lights are using siren15 and siren16. The front strobes are using two sirens each in this video (sirens 1, 6, 19, and 20) but I will be reducing this to 2 by rotating 19 and 20. The traffic advisor is again an extra using siren9 and siren10. Finally, the rear taillight strobes are not using the default taillight flashing system but are using siren3 and siren4.

You can see in the video that the lights with visible coronas (corner strobes) are environmental. Coronas are currently hidden for my other lights but can be added easily. In the video you may notice that the left taillight strobe seems buggy; I believe this is due to my not-so-great graphics settings.

 

More research soon to come.

Spoiler

48 minutes ago, Captain14 said:

Okay so I've done a little bit more research and also tested out a few other flash patterns.

• It is possible to enable environmental lighting for coronas (visible in video). You have to set the "light" value to true to enable it.
• I do not yet know if it is possible to enable environmental lighting without using coronas. I am going to further research this.
• All lights seem to be placed into two groups (0 and 1), I am not yet sure what these groupings determine.
• "delta" and "start" values under the flashiness section determine the rotation of the light mesh and corona when active. 
• You can change how much the sirens scale when enabled.

Here is another quick demo video. I played around with the explorer a little and altered the flash patterns some more: 

The valor is using siren7 and siren8. The rear window lights are using siren2 and siren5. The grille lights are using siren15 and siren16. The front strobes are using two sirens each in this video (sirens 1, 6, 19, and 20) but I will be reducing this to 2 by rotating 19 and 20. The traffic advisor is again an extra using siren9 and siren10. Finally, the rear taillight strobes are not using the default taillight flashing system but are using siren3 and siren4.

You can see in the video that the lights with visible coronas (corner strobes) are environmental. Coronas are currently hidden for my other lights but can be added easily. In the video you may notice that the left taillight strobe seems buggy; I believe this is due to my not-so-great graphics settings.

 

More research soon to come.

 

Wow, this almost replicates an ELS pattern. That's awesome!

Falloff values allow you to set the lights to reflect off objects much further. Short video I made here, you can see the light reflect off the buildings and tree. I set "lightfalloffMax" and "lightfalloffExponent" to a value of 80.

Why would Rockstar have such low falloff values is beyond me, default is very unrealistic and there appears to be no performance issues.

 

Edited August 14, 20169 yr by grimdar

1 hour ago, grimdar said:

Falloff values allow you to set the lights to reflect off objects much further. Short video I made here, you can see the light reflect off the buildings and tree. I set "lightfalloffMax" and "lightfalloffExponent" to a value of 80.

Why would Rockstar have such low falloff values is beyond me, default is very unrealistic and there appears to be no performance issues.

 

Woah! That's awesome! 

Do you know whether Non-Corona Vehicles would be helped? 

As posted by grimdar, here is my explorer with environmental lights enabled:

Working on a 2013 Tahoe for release using custom flash patterns!

1 hour ago, thegreathah said:

Woah! That's awesome! 

Do you know whether Non-Corona Vehicles would be helped? 

I think they have to use coronas. However, now that this file has been blown apart, I can't imagine why car modders wouldn't use it to their advantage and create corona enabled light with custom patterns. We'll be dealing with this particular file a lot now with most vehicle downloads now I imagine. 

I'm personally looking forward to more strobe-like patterns and not the LED christmas type lights. 

1 minute ago, grimdar said:

I think they have to use coronas. However, now that this file has been blown apart, I can't imagine why car modders wouldn't use it to their advantage and create corona enabled light with custom patterns. We'll be dealing with this particular file a lot now with most vehicle downloads now I imagine. 

I'm personally looking forward to more strobe-like patterns and not the LED christmas type lights. 

Yeah, me too, will be really nice to get realistic lighting patterns...

Will this currently work for British Vehicles?

Just now, ScottehBoyy said:

Will this currently work for British Vehicles?

Yes

2 hours ago, thegreathah said:

Woah! That's awesome! 

Do you know whether Non-Corona Vehicles would be helped? 

Unfortunately without coronas there can be no environmental lighting. 

 

1 hour ago, grimdar said:

I think they have to use coronas. However, now that this file has been blown apart, I can't imagine why car modders wouldn't use it to their advantage and create corona enabled light with custom patterns. We'll be dealing with this particular file a lot now with most vehicle downloads now I imagine. 

I'm personally looking forward to more strobe-like patterns and not the LED christmas type lights. 

Have you tried playing around with these values yet?

<lightInnerConeAngle value="0.00000000"/>

<lightOuterConeAngle value="25.60130000"/>

2 minutes ago, densup said:

Unfortunately without coronas there can be no environmental lighting. 

 

Have you tried playing around with these values yet?

<lightInnerConeAngle value="0.00000000"/>

<lightOuterConeAngle value="25.60130000"/>

I haven't touched them, but maybe they will do something, we'll see. Still lots to discover.

2 minutes ago, thegreathah said:

I haven't touched them, but maybe they will do something, we'll see. Still lots to discover.

Try adding the ones i posted and get back to me, if you could. 

1 minute ago, densup said:

Try adding the ones i posted and get back to me, if you could. 

Alright! Let's see what happens lol

Great Tutorial, Captain14.

57 minutes ago, densup said:

Try adding the ones i posted and get back to me, if you could. 

It didn't seem to change anything

48 minutes ago, thegreathah said:

It didn't seem to change anything

I'll PM you more about this in a bit

@anyone

Are we able to add Siren patterns too?  Like copy the one for Sirensetting 1 then pasting it and renaming it to "30" let's say?

I'm going to try that out, let me know if anyone has been able to get it to work!

Update: I have successfully added a "sirensettings 15" to my game and it works!  This opens up SO MANY MORE POSSIBILITIES!