[Update 1.0 - 2015.03.13] Emergency Lights CLEO script by nyolc8

[nyolc8]

Some light shadow progress:
bad news - I have no idea how the original headlight shadow being draw in front of the vehicle because there is only one shadow creator opcode exist in the game... and that one is lagging :| but the stock headlight shadow i not lagging... don't know how that made.

good news - finally know how the rotation works for the shadow opcode (I never understood why the shadow spins like crazy if I set the vehicle Zangle to it) so now I can make beam-like shadows instead of round shadows for lights  If I got some luck, then maybe I can make custom light shadows too (this would be the best)

[BeastyBill88]

Some light shadow progress:
bad news - I have no idea how the original headlight shadow being draw in front of the vehicle because there is only one shadow creator opcode exist in the game... and that one is lagging :| but the stock headlight shadow i not lagging... don't know how that made.

good news - finally know how the rotation works for the shadow opcode (I never understood why the shadow spins like crazy if I set the vehicle Zangle to it) so now I can make beam-like shadows instead of round shadows for lights  If I got some luck, then maybe I can make custom light shadows too (this would be the best)

Very nice! So the lights won't spin around when moving the camera? Custom light shadows would be cool to see in action

[nyolc8]

I speak about the shadows (the spots on the ground) now, not the lights

but succesfully made draw custom light shadow texture from staticons.txd file:



btw I read on gtaforums that there is a fix for the lag... but the link which point to that is broken 

edit: PM'd the guy there... wish me luck

edit2: LAGG FIXED!

[BeastyBill88]

That is awesome haha good luck, hopefully the guy replies to you.

[nyolc8]

he didn't but I already found the fix,applied, no more lagging shadow

[BeastyBill88]

Damn that was quick lol. Can we see the results when you have set it up?

[nyolc8]

Yeah, now I'm creating the custom shadows

[nyolc8]

main emergency light shadow is done, it's a simple bmp file in CLEO\EL\shadows\ folder so it will be easily modifiable

BUT now the status icon gets bugged and it freezes out. Basically now I have this bug:

I've also noticed that once you turn the lights on, I can't get the icon abvoe the map to go away, even when I get out of the car it is still there

I have no idea why... I didn't touched the status icon thread at all...



edit: the shadow lagg fix f*cks up the opcode which draws icon on th screen

[nyolc8]

The only way is have laggy shadows AND non-laggy shadows too and then the onscreen status works good...

Somehow the onscreen draw opcode uses the same memory address which makes the laggy shadow. So turning off laggy shadow = making draw onscreen opcode permanent.

[BeastyBill88]

So its either fix the laggy shadow or have the status icon working properly... :S

[nyolc8]

yes

[BeastyBill88]

I personally would go for the status icon working properly, as its going to look laggy when at high speed anyways, because of the camera and FOV moving.

[nyolc8]

well, for me, the fixed shadows have more priority, because the lag is much more visible with beam-like (not round) shadows

I'm thinking some text-based status showing like on these cameras:


I think it would be authentic

btw first I need to test if textdraw works with fixed shadows or not

and I'm looking now to see if the used opcode can be used somehow or not

[Wizzer]

well, for me, the fixed shadows have more priority, because the lag is much more visible with beam-like (not round) shadows

I'm thinking some text-based status showing like on these cameras:


I think it would be authentic

btw first I need to test if textdraw works with fixed shadows or not

and I'm looking now to see if the used opcode can be used somehow or not

Good luck
Waiting forward for it

[BeastyBill88]

well, for me, the fixed shadows have more priority, because the lag is much more visible with beam-like (not round) shadows

I'm thinking some text-based status showing like on these cameras:


I think it would be authentic

btw first I need to test if textdraw works with fixed shadows or not

and I'm looking now to see if the used opcode can be used somehow or not

Like a dashcam nice, looking forward to seeing what you come up with.