Doesn't work, spams infinite log entries
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/1a98eafd27e7f4cc9871175f9e15c0e4

Hi, would you update mining co projector to 1.5? Thanks!

Does the light accuracy bonus work for Combat Extended? I assume it should

1.5 please

good to know i would love to make my base more fortressy with those sweet spotlights.

@Blastmetal: I would say less than a week. Hold on buddy! ;-)

any ETA for a update to 1.4, this is literally the only mod that adds the type of spot lights that i want for my bases and im missing it already :S

@skycrossercat: the max range is defined by specialDisplayRadius value in Buildings_ProjectorTurret.xml file.

@Nix²: I could give you advice on how to proceed yourself if you know what you want.
Modifying the XML values is quite simple. More complex behavior requires C# programming knowledge however.
For now, I have put RimWorld modding on hold and have no plans to further work on my mods.

Hi.
with no disrespect,

I'd like to know if you accept any kinds of commission for very particular version of this spotlight mod.

I really enjoyed those handy projectors, and I just want some little changes personally. But my lack of modding knowledge failed me and I thought it'd be better to ask you directly on the matter.

I also tried to pm you but was unable to contact - so I leave this here. Please message me if you are interested.

Sincerely, Nix

Well, I found the source of the stuttering when I pan around the map. Also, zombies tend to treat the spotlight as a physical object to attack.

Looks like the range of the projectors can't be changed through xml, just feel the range is a bit too short.

Playing on full 0.1 Darkness + additional darkness aka PITCH BLOODY BLACK. These are so cool. Spotting zombies :D

@Rikiki It's cool. I'm still going to use the mod in the future beacuse I love it so much xD The savefile is like a week old and all the mods are updated to the current version. I just have to live without the projectors for this playthrough. Keep up the great work!

@Lennartsson: sorry but the mod is working fine on my side even after reloading.
Was it an old savegame from V1.0?
A possible solution could be to use the dev tools to destroy and rebuild for free the projector.

@Rikiki Nvm, it's back again. I guess the problem comes back if you have the projector installed in your colony and you restart the game and load your old savefile.

@Rikki Well I tried makeing a new projector and apparently it fixed itself and the squares are gone. I dont know if this depends on that I retarted my computer or if it was beacuse I built a complety new projector, rather then reinstalling an existing projector. Beacuse this glitch happend like two days ago and I just forgot to report it. I doupt that my memory caused it, beacuse I got a pretty beefy computer. The glitch happend when an pawn (colonist) was travelling the map and was going to attack a settlement. As soon as the "generating a new map" notification popped up and the game was generating a new map it crashed after like 10 seconds of loading. I will say I have like 40 mods installed so maybe that caused it.

@Lennartsson: Quite strange. Do you know what was the crash cause? Is it related to this mod?
Do you have enough memory to run the game? Pink square generally means that the texture was not loaded into memory but that is handled by the game, not my mod.
Try to restart Steam and please report if it happens again.

Hi, I just wanted to tell you that I encounterd a glitch with your mod. My game just suddenly crashed once. And once I loaded up my game again all of the projectors got a big pink square around them block the view. The square disapear if you "uninstall" the projectors ingame, but if you reinstall them again the squares is back

If you could do a compatibility patch with Fog of War mod so this would add vision it'd be amazing. No idea how to do it myself. It's a great mod but the camera textures are just awful

Thank you Rikiki

Updated to V1.1!
Tower glow radius increased.
Warning: fixed projector was removed as it was too ugly and complex for low reward.

Can you update this please

I made a tweak mod for the time being. :P Not perfect but whatever. Tired of trying to adjust it cause it takes 2 minutes to load the game each time.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1776557445

Any possibility of that mod option though? I was thinking of just making a patch myself assuming that the item you use to generate the light is just an invisible structure that I could increase the range on through XML. But a mod option would certainly be nice to have.

@Vas: thanks for the report. I will look into it if I can find some time.

I get an error when moving projectors;

Exception ticking ProjectorTower542208: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at Verse.GridsUtility.Roofed (IntVec3 c, Verse.Map map) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Projector.Building_MobileProjectorTower.CheckAdditionalConditions () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Projector.Building_MobileProjector.Tick () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

Any chance you can add a mod option to this that makes the projectors light area bigger or smaller and an option for their power usage as well?

So I can scale up their light up area by 100% and the power usage by 50%, for example.

Any hard incompatabilites?

Yeah all good lol, honestly I just go through the same procedure everytime I find one abstract still being overwritten, most of them get lost in files without notice :D

@Jdalt40: Someone told me the same thing just a few days ago in another thread. :-) Thanks for the info!
In fact, this is due to old Alpha versions where you had to overwrite base defs in each mod. Time for a clean-up I suppose! :-)

MMS and Alert Speaker also overwrite:

[Alert Speaker] BuildingBase in file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\848309750\Defs\ThingDefs\Buildings_Base.xml

[MMS] C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\755224256\Defs\ThingDefs_Buildings\Buildings_Base.xml

Hey Rikiki, it appears that you overwrite abstract bases, the bases you overwrite are:

InfectionBase in file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\955561873\Defs\HediffDefs\Hediffs_Blinded.xml

BuildingBase in file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\294100\955561873\Defs\ThingDefs_Buildings\Buildings_Base.xml

Removing these overwritten bases will both remove clutter in your mod and safe everyone else trouble, as abstract bases are inheritable from other mods now, meaning your base is being inherited instead of the core base for every mod that has the BuildingBase or InfectionBase parent.

@Lustique: thanks for the links.
The night vision mod seems interresting. I did not saw it earlier.

The LED version is definitely possible but I am lacking free time to implement it myself. You can however play with the XML files to make another version of the turret. I am affraid that the spotlight texture is hardcoded though.

@Rikiki: Since da812manymonkey didn't provide you with a link to "[XND] Turret Extensions":

https://steamproxy.net/workshop/filedetails/?id=1496122245

I also have a question of my own: Do you plan on expanding this? I think it would be nice if this mod featured LED versions of the various projectors, that are more powerful, use less energy and look a bit more futuristic, maybe in accordance with one of the LED mods like "LED Lights" by cucumpear ( https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=843715469 ) which I personally use, or "LED Technology [V1.0]" ( https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=760900903 ; this one also seems to be quite popular). In both cases, LED technology has to be researched first.

And another thing: Are you aware of the Nightvision mod ( https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1464989530 )?

[XND] Turret Extensions

@da812manymonkey: thank you!
What is "turret extensions"? Do you have a link, please?

Love this, especially with realistic darkness. Also, it gives that perfect extra bit of drama for prison breaks and night raids. Is there any way to get turret extensions support?

thank. I noticed that they still reacted to enemies when static, but id didn't look like they were blinding them. I only had a couple instances to check so it's not a great sample size.

@sdp0et: you can already do it! :-) Just cycle the light mode: conic, static or random.

Would it be possible to disable the light animation, but still allow the turret to lock onto enemies? Basically make it static until an enemy shows up? That might help me out with the performance issue and still benefit from the mod?

still waiting on the Mineco Shuttles.

i have gforce1060, shouldnt be bad :P i will check it soon, thanks!

@g0jira: it is known that some graphic cards have tough times to handle moving lights. I tries to optimize some pieces of code. Is V1.0 better?

@Vrarrg: you are welcome! :-)

Thank you Rikiki

Updated to V1.0.

its released on 17th so soon ;) but you spotlight turret has terrible performance, at least in 19 it was slowing down my game

Can you fix this for B19 since it doesn't work as of now ?

@Soullesswaffle: thanks, I will check it!

@james76543: well, I messed a bit because V1.0 is available on unstable branch and I thought it would get realeased really soon. I am a bit in advance...

Why is this 1.0 when 1.0 is still unreleased?

There seems to be a bug where if you uninstall a projector turret while it's on, the projector light remains on the map. Restarting the game does not make it go away, but placing the projector turret again makes the light follow the projector normally. I pasted the debug log here: https://pastebin.com/EL6wdB6u