Changing the color of the street lights?

Merronkur · Jan 25, 2015

I notice that after you take over the city, the lights change color from a bright yellow to a blue. Personally, I preferred them when they were the former, it just made the city look more alive, y'know?

I think I came close once when I found the weather.xtbl, there were a few things about the street lights in there but I edited it with no luck.

Where do I start? What file controls the coloring of the street lights?

[V] Knobby · Feb 6, 2015

This looks like it is all done in the weather system. Take a look at weather_time_of_day.xtbl. Specifically the sections Alien Zone for settings when it is not controlled by you and City Takeover when it is.

Merronkur · Feb 7, 2015

No luck; I tried everything from editing the values manually to blatantly copy-and-pasting the code from Alien Zone to City Takeover.

I also tried editing some of the .todx files to the same result.

[V] Knobby · Feb 7, 2015

Did you alter the textures pointed to there? I understand it is very much a texture thing, but they are frustratingly small. Hopefully we can support better with more memory at a later time.

Merronkur · Feb 7, 2015

Where would the textures be located?

[V] Knobby · Feb 7, 2015

That I'm not sure, but I believe their names are in that table file. I would suggest using Minimaul's tool to try and locate them.

TheCraftyTitan · Feb 7, 2015

Pardon me if I'm stepping on any toes, but if this mod is any indication, I think external_cto_light_override.xtbl, plus a bit of tweak_table.xtbl editing, may be at least part of what you're looking for. It seems to control the street light and light source colors.

Merronkur · Feb 7, 2015

Looks like the tweak table edits are for the windows. I actually didn't know those changed color.

I'm currently editing the external_cto_light_override and it's actually the first that's given me any results; thanks, by the way.

EDIT:
Alright so I've finished editing the external_cto_light_override and so far most of the lights in the game are back to their orignal alien color, save for a good handful in some areas.