How to change the Sunshine Lighting

[Kra]

I found how to change the sunshine lightning in Forest Ultimate. It's not a very big discovery but it's useful if you want to make a night skin without this orange lightning.

How to change the sunshine lightning:
The texture is in this file : data\effect_nt.xvm, which contains a lot of effects as Telepipe, explosion, loading effect... The sunshine lightning is in the Image 31.

Before:


If I fill the texture with blue:


So with a transparent texture, you can remove the lightning :


How to change the lightning of objects:
Doors are still orange, we need to change lightning of objects.

Open the file data\lightentry.bin with an hex editor.
Offset 0040 to 007F = Lightning object for Forest 1 (normal)
Offset 0080 to 00BF = Lightning object for Forest 2 (normal)

Offset 0D00 to 0D4F = Lightning object for Forest 1 (ultimate)
Offset 0D50 to 0D9F = Lightning object for Forest 2 (ultimate)

Just copy the data from forest 1 and 2 (normal) to forest 1 and 2 (ultimate).

Before:


After:


This picture is the lightning objets of the area "Forest 1" in lightentry.bin
The bytes in red/green/blue are the colors.

[Vibestar]

Oh, I just realized this is what I was looking for in here. D'you know which offsets are responsible for which areas and which objects?

[Kra]

Nope sorry I know nothing else about this file.

[Vibestar]

Um, it's really sad cause I did manage to find out required offsets for Caves 1 only.

Before


After

[HeartBreak301]

Radioactive lilies.

[Vibestar]

Radioactive lilies.

I need this effect for my cartoon skin.

[Lee]

ffs do I have to do everything around here.

TLightData = Record // Light Entry 0x40 Bytes
L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8, L9, L10, L11, L12, L13, L14, L15,
L16: Single;
End;

Filesize 6528 bytes
102 Entries

You do realise they are floats right?

Something doesn't add up though....

[Lee]

kra you ass it's 68 bytes per entry not 64.

[Vibestar]

[url=http://img34.imageshack.us/i/light3f.jpg/]

It's lightentry.bin, isn't it? What is it opened with?

[Lee]

[url=http://img34.imageshack.us/i/light3f.jpg/]

It's lightentry.bin, isn't it? What is it opened with?

When I want to edit a typed binary file, what do you think I do. Answer that and it explains the picture. And yes it's lightentry.bin .

[Vibestar]

When I want to edit a typed binary file, what do you think I do.

Particle editor? Sorry, I have no the slightest idea, really. Give me a chance.

[Lee]

*headdesk

someone else can explain how dumb you just managed to be. I'm going to nap.

[Dream]

When lee wants to edit something with a gui, he programs the dang thing himself because he can look at raw data and figure out how it's structured.

[Lee]

Don't bitch me if it goes nuclear, I had very little time to debug it.

Config file will let you change the names in the tables etc.

Always keep a backup of your light entry.

[Vibestar]

Don't bitch me if it goes nuclear, I had very little time to debug it.

Config file will let you change the names in the tables etc.

Always keep a backup of your light entry.

I just posted half-feedback half-question on this editor in here.