Darkness mutator

[iDeFiX]

With X-mas coming, I was wondering about the possibilities to get (online played) maps more festive.

Most of you probably know mutators like Capture the Tree, Snow, XmasLights, etc. But I was wondering if maps using these mutators would be nicer to play if lighting was adjusted e.g. to make darker. I tried EavyDarkmatchIII for this, but I got some 'issues' with:
1) It makes most maps too dark (in my opinion and for my 'festive' goal). Players really need a flashlight, but what if you don't want to? And I think some lightning (like lantarns, lightpoles, spots) should be on to make it playable and festive.
2) After initialization, a 'flush' command is needed to fix the adjusted lighting. I remembered this problem and fix from my active years. It seems to be the problem with some videorenders (OpenGL/XOpenGL?), but I'm not sure.

So, after years of inactivity (playing and coding), I'm trying to make a mutator 'Darkness', which is based on EavyDarkmatchIII, that fits my goal. Features:
1) Configurable lighting (0-99% of its default value) of Lights and ZoneInfos, per map. This allows to play a darkmatch map (optional configurable flashlight with other mutator) or slightly lighted map.
2) Auto 'flush' command to fix lightning.

At this moment I'm 'okish'with the results I see on some maps. Preview of CTF-Hydro16:

hydro-darkness.PNG

I was wondering if people are interested in this mutator and are willing to test and help me? Looking forward to your suggestions, ideas and positive criticism.

[EvilGrins]

If you have a download for it, I'll test it.

[Barbie]

3) Adjustable via MUTATE command

[f7r]

I was messing around with this a while back. Try this. Should work in dedicated server mode. And twirl the settings.

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[EavyDarkmatchIII.EavyDarkmatchMutator]
EavyDisabledLight=True
EavySpecialLit=False
EavySkyZone=True
EavyFogZone=True
EavyLensFlare=True
EavyAmbientBrightness=True
EavyActivateLight=True
EavyToggleLight=True
EavyCrouchingToggle=True
EavyFlashLight=False
EavyColoredLight=True
EavyPlayerLight=True
EavyLightBrightness=250
EavyLightHue=167
EavyLightSaturation=142
EavyLightRadius=14
EavyRealisticLight=True
EavySpecialLight=False
ColorEffect=3
HueShift=0
RandomHue=True
AmbientChange=2
SaturationChange=4
Brightness=0
Effect=20

[EavyDarkmatchIII_2.EavyDarkmatchMutator]
EavyDisabledLight=False
EavySpecialLit=False
EavySkyZone=True
EavyFogZone=True
EavyLensFlare=True
EavyAmbientBrightness=True
EavyActivateLight=False
EavyToggleLight=False
EavyCrouchingToggle=False
EavyFlashLight=False
EavyColoredLight=False
EavyPlayerLight=False
EavyLightBrightness=250
EavyLightHue=167
EavyLightSaturation=142
EavyLightRadius=14
EavyRealisticLight=False
EavySpecialLight=False
ColorEffect=3
HueShift=0
RandomHue=True
AmbientChange=2
SaturationChange=4
Brightness=0
Effect=20                                

EavyDarkmatchIII.u

[EvilGrins]

In order for a mutator to work you need .int & a .u files, but your download is only the .u file.

What you have above it is what goes into an .int but isn't one... yet.

[f7r]

I lost it somewhere. To start the server you don't need an int file, you just need to specify '?mutator=EavyDarkmatchIII.EavyDarkmatchMutator' in the launch line. You can make the int file yourself by classes described in the u file. The simplest, something like a

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[Public]
Object=(Name=EavyDarkmatchIII.EavyDarkmatchMutator,Class=Class,MetaClass=Engine.Mutator,Description="EavyDarkmatchIII")

   
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And don't forget

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[Engine.Engine]
ServerPackages=EavyDarkmatchIII

Although I don't use it. I use a rewritten ServerPackager for dynamically loading supple packages using XCGE.