Flashlight NV

NAME: Flashlight NV AUTHOR: Documn CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

ATTENTION: Gopher made a head-mounted flashlight. Go check it out! ATTENTION: If you don't like my flashlight, go try Vivantro's flashlight!

SHORT DESCRIPTION ================= This mod gives you an invisible, hands-free flashlight.

HISTORY ======= 1. 0, Nov 03 2010 - Initial release.

LONGER DESCRIPTION ================== The flashlight is a light beam that follows your line of sight. It's effective up to 1000 units away. (For reference, an average player character about 125 units tall.) The beam magically comes out of your player's face, so in that sense it's not really a flashlight. This light is not connected to your Pip-Boy light; your Pip-Boy light will continue to work as normal.

The flashlight is an apparel item. Wear it to turn the flashlight on; remove it to turn it off. The default color is orange, though the light may appear white or yellow depending on what area you're in. You can change the flashlight's color by opening your Pip-boy and navigating to Items > Apparel > < Flashlight Options >.

This mod suffers from one major problem: exterior ground (that isn't covered by rubble, concrete, etc.) only seems to reflect one or two lights at a time, which makes it impossible to make it look like a light beam with my current method. Instead, I have made a couple a couple scripts to choose a good spot to illuminate. - FlashlightNV-LOS.esp uses the line-of-sight function to choose a nice spot to illuminate, but it may to decrease your game's frame rate if your computer isn't that good. - FlashlightNV-Performance.esp uses some quick trigonometry to find a place to illuminate. It's decent if you're on flat ground, but if you're looking even slightly uphill or downhill, it can be pretty bad.

The Fallout 3 version of the flashlight is here: http://fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15003

SHOUT OUT TO PELINOR: This mod follows the same principle as Pelinor's Directional Piplight (download here: http://fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9084) Thanks to Pelinor for giving me permission to improve on the mod.

KNOWN ISSUES ============ Using the light will decrease your frame rate. You may want to install some performance-enhancing mods if the game runs too slow for you.

The beam of light can "pulse" while you're moving. This is most noticable if you're facing a wall and you move straight forward and backwards. I have decided to leave it as is - it's a compromise I had to make between the smoothless of the light, the effective length of the flashlight beam, and the performance hit on your computer.

The "only one light