I don't know about you, but red, white, blue, and yellow lights really aren't enough for me! This mod adds new light jewels: 16 new colors and two new styles, for a total of 60 lights! These lights come in all primary and secondary colors, and a small selection of "fun" colors, including a black light (unfortunately, I could not implement a lava lamp).

In addition to the old "globe" style, each color also comes in flat "panel" and rounded "dome" configurations. The former are useful for window or engine effects, the latter make nice running lights, and you have to do less twiddling to get the "light" effect oriented properly. Both of the latter have a much broader scale-range.



HISTORY:

A long time ago, I asked Stardock for a green light, and Kryo pointed out that there was an unimplemented texture available. He subsequently implemented all of the unimplemented lights in his hull mod. While I think Kryo's mod is fantastic, I wanted folks to be able to get the lights by themselves. It then occurred to me that since I would have to get dirty setting them up (so as not to encroach on Kryo's turf), I might as well go for broke. For the record, it was a pain in the keyster teasing new file names into the -x files!



NOTES:

- This mod actually "hides" the old lights. They will still work from your old ships, but new ships will have a different component. The old lights still look the same, they were changed so the lights would group together in the shipyard dialogue.

- This mod is designed to be compatible with Kryo's Hull mod, in that it will use Kryo's lights, and it should "hide" them properly. I can't guaruntee that it will always be so. Please notify me of any incompatibilities.

- Some of the "dark" colored lights aren't much darker than the "light" versions. Sorry about that... it turns out that it is very hard to make a deeply-colored light that still looks like a light. I am sure someone out there knows how, and I'd love to see it implemented.


A special acknowledgement is due to Kryo, for his patience with, and understanding for, a newbie!

Please post any comments or suggestions you may have here!


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