LightSniper

LightSniper is a mod for Derail Valley designed as a companion to Procedural Sky by CybexGS and inspired by Extra Lights by Katy Fox.

Procedural Sky makes DV much more immersive with night time and weather effects, but as a result of there being no lighting in the towns and rail yards, the DV world ends up feeling a little dead. LightSniper aims to address this by allowing the player to light up their own DV world and share their lights with others, essentially the mod is Extra Extra Lights.

Quick Start

• []Install Unity Mod Manager

  []Install Procedural Sky

  []Install Functional Clocks Continued (DVTime) - this is required for Procedural Sky

  []Install Extra Lights (Optional)

  []Install LightSniper

  If you want to place your own lights, just go ahead and use the new LIGHTSNIPER mode in the comms radio. If you wish to use the LightSniper bundled lights, open the console and run the command:

  LightSniper. InstallPack default

  This will unpack and enable the default lighting pack. Note that it may take up to a minute for lights to load in once you install the default pack so don’t panic if nothing happens immediately.

  If you want to install the level crossings as well, run the console command:

  LightSniper. InstallPack level_crossings

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  Features

  • []Place (“snipe”) light sources into the Derail Valley world using a new menu in the comms radio

    []Place meshes with lights attached, for example lamp posts and flood lights

    []Place “decorations” on existing meshes to simulate lit up windows on buildings, glowing traffic lights, etc.

    []All placed lights, meshes and decorations stored in JSON files for easy sharing/backup

    []Performance options such as rendering radius for lights and meshes, and background refresh rate

    []Adds the same player glow as Extra Lights so you don’t lose out on the player glow if you’re not running Extra Lights (automatically disabled if Extra Lights is detected)

    Advanced features include

    []Modify all properties of placed lights including intensity, colour, range and visible corona

    [*]Define “duty cycle” for placed lights, for e