TURNING THE DEFAULT CITY LAMP OFF

Does someone know how I can a turn off a streetlamp in a city. No addon streetlamp!

Thanks

K6

Very possible. You can even add lightswitches to every single lamp, if you want to.

Create a trigger, condition TRUE, activation:

nearestObject [this, "StreetLamp"] switchLight "OFF"

There ya go! You don't even need a radius to be set for the trigger.

Keep in mind that O:FP's handling of streetlights is VERY slow. It might take a few seconds for the thing to actually appear to be off, but this DOES work.

To make a lightswitch feature, I did this:

Place a flag or other static object inside the light (using an invisible game logic unit will only work in single player), give it a name, and put this in the init field:

this addAction ["Turn streetlight on/off","lightswitch.sqs"]

Then, make a script called "lightswitch.sqs" with the following code:

***

_lightname = _this select 0

? lightIsOn nearestObject [_lightname, "StreetLamp"] == "OFF" : goto "setOn"

? lightIsOn nearestObject [_lightname, "StreetLamp"] == "AUTO" : goto "setOff"

#setOff

nearestObject [this, "StreetLamp"] switchLight "OFF"

exit

#setOn

nearestObject [_lightname, "StreetLamp"] switchLight "AUTO"

exit

***

NOTE: "AUTO" is used, because "ON" doesn't show the light during daytime anyways, and "AUTO" is the default value. You can change it if you want to, with no ill effects, AFAIK.

Have fun!

- PlaneShifter -

Thanks dude, great answer...more the I expected. Will try this out.

Thanks again

I did it exactly as you said. Not the switch part! It wrote "invalid number in expression"

Can someone warchover the first light off sentence its not working.

Thanks

Try naming the trigger and replacing "this" with the trigger name. Might be referencing the trigger list or something, I dunno. Also, make sure your quotes and brackets are all in the right places. I'll try this myself and see if I get the same problem.

- PlaneShifter -