[TEC] Coastal Searchlights

Bubblehead1980 · 11-26-21, 01:52 PM

Is there a working coastal search light for SH 4? The stock lights and ones TMO do not light up, just there. Would be nice to have some that actually work, as now had working land based radar, radio direction finding, and radar warning in TMO.

Jeff-Groves · 11-26-21, 02:02 PM

With a little work? I'd say one could be created.
I'd look at the Air Raid Siren effect in GWX 3 for SH3 as how to produce one.

Looking at the files? Attaching the search light to a land Unit should work.

Mad Mardigan · 11-26-21, 02:51 PM

Not to derail but to add to this, what of when light houses have the light rotating, in sim/game... there's no beam of light that rotates out, sort of like searchlights, but in a... straight line out. Would be nice to have that effect in there, as well.

M. M.

Jeff-Groves · 11-26-21, 03:42 PM

It should be. All the controllers say the light houses work.

Mad Mardigan · 11-26-21, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

It should be. All the controllers say the light houses work.

When I'm playing, all the lighthouses do, is brighten up & give a... sort of lightning bug flash... there is no beam running out from the lighthouses, as does the searchlights off ships do... but without all the moving about as they are looking for you...

is there any possibility, of a search light beam, as used by say... destroyers, able to be added to the lighthouses so they shine out in a straight unmoving about line & rotate about... think... like a flashlight stuck on a pole attached to a motor that rotates the pole... & the flashlight doesn't move but stays fixed in that 1 position... pointing out, forming the top of the "T".

Best I can describe what I'm asking here...

hope from that, you can understand what I'm asking here... from that.

M. M.

propbeanie · 11-26-21, 07:34 PM

Keep that Stock version of the search light though, as well as the lighthouse, because like the AA gun emplacement that is empty, it will draw fire from attacking airplanes, and improve the bombing without knocking a hundred planes from the sky in sixty seconds or less, the way a working gun emplacement does... Witness the air attack on Wake Island in FotRSU, where one little 20mm on the s/e point of the island takes out most of the Betties, even when set to Competent... The Betties do avoid that spot after a run or two though.

11-26-21, 01:52 PM	#1
Bubblehead1980 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida USA Posts: 6,922 Downloads: 550 Uploads: 42	Coastal Searchlights Is there a working coastal search light for SH 4? The stock lights and ones TMO do not light up, just there. Would be nice to have some that actually work, as now had working land based radar, radio direction finding, and radar warning in TMO.

11-26-21, 02:02 PM	#2
Jeff-Groves Village Idiot Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,319 Downloads: 130 Uploads: 0	With a little work? I'd say one could be created. I'd look at the Air Raid Siren effect in GWX 3 for SH3 as how to produce one. Looking at the files? Attaching the search light to a land Unit should work. __________________ I don't do Stupid. So don't ask. Last edited by Jeff-Groves; 11-26-21 at 02:13 PM.

11-26-21, 02:51 PM	#3
Mad Mardigan Admiral Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Grand Rapids, Mi. Posts: 2,327 Downloads: 491 Uploads: 0	Re: in addition, lighthouses..??? Not to derail but to add to this, what of when light houses have the light rotating, in sim/game... there's no beam of light that rotates out, sort of like searchlights, but in a... straight line out. Would be nice to have that effect in there, as well. M. M. __________________

11-26-21, 03:42 PM	#4
Jeff-Groves Village Idiot Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,319 Downloads: 130 Uploads: 0	It should be. All the controllers say the light houses work. __________________ I don't do Stupid. So don't ask.

11-26-21, 07:34 PM	#6
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 9,749 Downloads: 439 Uploads: 2	Keep that Stock version of the search light though, as well as the lighthouse, because like the AA gun emplacement that is empty, it will draw fire from attacking airplanes, and improve the bombing without knocking a hundred planes from the sky in sixty seconds or less, the way a working gun emplacement does... Witness the air attack on Wake Island in FotRSU, where one little 20mm on the s/e point of the island takes out most of the Betties, even when set to Competent... The Betties do avoid that spot after a run or two though. __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayer/s" - Jimbuna