Headlight intensity changes in upcoming build

EDIT: Code has been altered that should pretty much take care of this issue. Car modders SHOULD be able to get away without making any changes.

More information on the headlight intensity changes in our upcoming build: They are mostly going to require reducing attenuation values.


Here’s an example from the Renault Clio 197:


Type=Spot
Pos=( 0.625, 0.54,-1.76)
Dir=(-0.08,-0.1,-0.85)
Range=(0.0, 280.0)
Active=False
Attenuate=(0.1, 0.009, 0.00002)
Hotspots=(10, 60)
Falloff=(2)
Intensity=(2.1)
Color=(255, 241, 224)


That’s a sort of realistic value for a typical standard single bulb halogen headlight. Intensity is in lumens / 1000.

 

Type - Spot = this is a spotlight. spotlights have two zones
described by inner and outer hotspots.


Pos - the position relative to the cars centroid.


Dir - the direction the spot is pointing, as a vector.


Range - start and end effective range of light. Start is unused, ranges are typically 100-300m (300 for HID) new laser lights may reach even further.


Active - whether the light is on or off. They always start as Off.


Attenuate - three attenuation factors (constant, linear, quadratic)
used in this equation: atten = 1.0 / (constant + (linear * dist) +
(quadratic dist dist)), where distance is from the light to the
current pixel in world space.


Hotspots - angle of the inner and outer cones of the spotlight in degrees


Falloff - exponential power used for another attenuation factor based
on distance from center line of spotlight


Intensity - in klumens (1000 lumens) or kcandela/m2.
Color - RGB values

 

Thanks for the info Tim.. Will the intesity likely to be used in other models, TSO's for instance. For example flashing lights on a helicoptor, flash bulbs on camera flashes, building lights, street lights etc?

I'm guessing it won't be required as much and that's fine as I'm happy with the intensity of these TSO's at the moment that I'm doing, however if these figures can be used in TSO's then will the same guidelines above be used?

 

nice info.

 

Thank you, we will update in consequence.

 

Talking of Headlights... i looked into a Replay yesterday, headlights where on, but not shown on my Car (SaoPaulo+Megane). Something to do in the Player File, undocumented Feature?

 

Cheers Luc, just wanted to double check

 

Code has been altered that should pretty much take care of this issue. Car modders SHOULD be able to get away without making any changes.

 

Thanks for that Info, Tim. If it was related to my question...

 

Where do I go to find these values to modify an existing car?

 

Previous entries were in the Gen files, I suspect the same with this.