The spitemaster
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I would like to change the level of light that the lampposts give off. So, rather than just being able to see that there is something around the lamp, I would like a further radius.

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Jatopian
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Pardon me if I misunderstand, but if you click on the light you placed you can increase its brightness/radius.

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eb0ny
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This only increases intensity. The increase of radius is negligible, and this only works to a limited extent. What the spitemaster asks is to allow architects to set any (within limits of sanity) radius or intensity for any lamp.

I second this.

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mrimer
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Increasing the intensity does increase the radius by one tile each click. It's a physical, ray-traced light model, and I set the parameters for the light intensity to cause this to work properly. I don't see how it would make sense to change the laws of physics so light can have greater intensity without lighting a greater distance, or v.v. (There are some tweaks to keep the color from becoming too saturated, though.)

But if you mean you want lights to shine further than 8 tiles outward, that's a possibility, but would require changing the room data format and could only be included in a major version-breaking patch (e.g. 3.3).

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[Last edited by mrimer at 08-05-2008 06:12 AM]