City Lights

[Paladin1cd]

Does anyone happen to know if you can knock out the lights to a city on any of the maps? Or turn them off through scripting or something? Mostly wondering if players can bomb the electrical system and have it impact the lights in a city?

[Gumbie]

Would be cool if a person could do this, a person could set up Dynamic Campaigns and have missions to knock out things like power stations, Ammo Depos, and other things that could effect the out come of battles.  

 

Sure your not the first to think of this but great question and ideal. 

[cfrag]

16 hours ago, Paladin1cd said:

Does anyone happen to know if you can knock out the lights to a city on any of the maps? Or turn them off through scripting or something? Mostly wondering if players can bomb the electrical system and have it impact the lights in a city?

 

AFAIK, night lighting is baked into the night ground texture, i.e. it's not really cast by light sources, just bright looking pixels painted on the ground (as this greatly improves performance, no light source calculations at all). So it's currently not possible to selectively turn 'off' these lights. It may be possible (if you had access to the render settings of the terrain's mesh) to switch some polygon's textures to daytime (no lighting) and thus simulate a blackout. But that would likely look weird and artificial, not natural at all. 

Edited September 9, 2021 by cfrag

[Paladin1cd]

Cfrag thanks that’s what I was curious about. Darned shame but I understand why. Thanks!

[buur]

If you want to fly on a dark map set the datum to a time during second world war. Then the city lightning is off.