Boneski Posted July 5, 2023 Posted July 5, 2023 (edited) It would be a Nice To Have (It may already be in the game) But if not... please add a Hidden Feature That if you set the Date and time(21:100) in the Nevada Map, That A short lets say 5 min Fireworks display pops off over the Las Vegas Strip. Have it repeat lets say 4 times randomly between 21hrs and 22hrs. This Fire works show only works when the actual data along with the in-game date is July 4 20xx This means if a user just make s a July 4th mission and the actual date is not the 4th there will be no show. It would be really cool to drive a combine arms ground unit, or even fly a helicopter down to the strip Just an idea Edited July 5, 2023 by Boneski 1 My mission is to fly, fight, and win. o-:|:-o What I do is sometimes get a tin of soup, heat it up, poach an egg in it, serve that with a pork pie sausage roll.
cfrag Posted July 6, 2023 Posted July 6, 2023 On 7/5/2023 at 5:36 AM, Boneski said: It would be a Nice To Have Why not just do it yourself? We have flares, and you can set them up to fire at any time, in any quantity. There are even tools available that can make this trivial. 1
cfrag Posted July 6, 2023 Posted July 6, 2023 (edited) On 7/5/2023 at 5:36 AM, Boneski said: Fireworks display pops off over the Las Vegas Strip. Ok, so not to just big-mouth off (as I allegedly often do, according to someone dear to me but who does not always agree with me), here's a demo (proof of concept). The magic is in the trigger zones. Copy/paste them willy-nilly along the strip and they will all start producing fire works inside them. The mission starts the show 1 second after mission start for you. To embellish, look for these trigger zones, and copy/paste them If you want to play with how much fireworks they produce, look into the trigger zone's attributes Each attribute controls in the "Value" field: flare - color of the flare. 'rnd' means random. Also understands red, blue, white, yellow. launch? - the flag that signals the start of the show. Here I use the flag named 'go'. show starts when that flag changes its value. Done for you in this mission after 1 second direction - in which direction (in degrees) to launch a flare. 1-355 means a random value between 1° and 355° salve - how many flares to launch. here 1000 duration - how much time do we have to launch the salvo. Here 100 to 360 seconds agl - how many METERS above the ground to launch the flares (if you place them on buildings) If you are wondering about the strange 'place stuff with trigger zones and control it with text' - that's the DML way of mission tinkering. Took me a good five minutes to assemble this, so handle with loving care Miz below (name is a movie reference the elderly amongst us will instantly recognize ) We will not go quietly into the night.miz Edited July 6, 2023 by cfrag
Wrcknbckr Posted July 7, 2023 Posted July 7, 2023 There used to be fireworks when you hit an ammo depot. Haven't seen it for some time. Was it my aim or was it taken out alltogether? 1
Boneski Posted July 7, 2023 Author Posted July 7, 2023 Thanks. Yes I know we could do a thing with the mission editor. But the point was for it to be something special that happened to the map just because. Yes, we can put statics at the Airports to give a base the look of life and make trucks drive around... all in the mission editor. But the programmers can do that for use as well. They have an acurate star chart and Sun/Moon cycle built in the game. So adding a special neat treat for the user based on the clock and calander would be kinda cool. But again thanks for showing us how to do it... that was not the request. The request was to make something neat and special happen on the map should the user setup a night mission the Nevada map on that date during those times... I think some call the easter's Eggs My mission is to fly, fight, and win. o-:|:-o What I do is sometimes get a tin of soup, heat it up, poach an egg in it, serve that with a pork pie sausage roll.
cfrag Posted July 9, 2023 Posted July 9, 2023 On 7/7/2023 at 9:02 PM, Boneski said: The request was to make something neat and special happen on the map should the user setup a night mission the Nevada map on that date during those times... I think some call the easter's Eggs Ah, well. Then again, I think that by the mere fact that you openly requested this, it can't - by definition - be an "Easter egg" any more, merely a "user-requested feature". Anyway, I was (again) surprised by just how unimpressive fireworks look from the sky. YMMV. 1
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