Colored lines

[oephun]

The attached map demos how to draw colored lines by abusing the splats\lightningdata.slk. It is filled with rows like [c0, textures, white.blp, 1, 1, 255, 0, 0, 255, 0, 0, 0, 0] for each color and line width combination. The splats\lightningdata.slk in the map uses these 216 colors, 5 different line widths, for a total of 1080 rows. The drawing then is just calling AddLightningEx with the appropriate lightning data name (c0 .. c1079).

lightnings seem to use some strange blending mode for their drawing. Colors like F00 (same as FF0000(red)) are drawn with slight transparency, the color 900 is more transparent, 300 even more, and 000 (black) is fully invisible. So the available colors are less than 216.

 

[Lizreu]

i cant believe that in the year of our lord 2024 i have been impressed by a handful of green lines

but im impressed

to an outsider the fact that this is in "advanced scripting" would seem almost comical

 

[Pyrogasm]

Hahahaha that is astute and hilarious! I really want to add what you wrote to my signature quote, but without the context it really loses something. :'(

The forced (slight) transparency always messing visually with lines that intersect at a vertex or cross each other is, in my opinion, a true shame. This was almost perfect... until that messed it up.

 

[Cokemonkey11]

Bonespink did something similar before

Unfortunately lightning instances are aggressively garbage collected so uses are pretty limited