LFS Development Discussion

[[RDSR] Roba]

(2019-12-23 03:04)Pete Wrote:  

(2019-12-22 14:49)Roba Wrote:  Weren't they hinting about a safety car with a light bar to be added at some point? This could be used as a police car then, and I'm sure if one's to be added, they won't stick yellow lights on it

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What I'm concerned most is, that will the low/high beams finally come with this update? It might be a bit annoying to drive as a cop/suspects when you have your lights blinking on/off rather than high/low beams

Scawen has mentioned he's interested in adding a safety car. SC lights are normally orange/yellow so it's unlikely that a light bar would be able to produce different coloured lights. That's because the actual beams and bloom would likely be baked into the lighting engine and would not have anything to do with the colour of any underlying texture.

Scawen hasn't mentioned high/low beam and unless having headlights shone in your face reduces the dilation of the camera's lens (doubt that would be a thing), it's not possible to be dazzled by the headlights in the game anyway, removing the need for a low and high beam. If he adds some system that produces a short beam and far beam, then I'm sure he would add a way of toggling between the two.

I wasn't concerned about being blinded from the lights, but rather the light values and darkness etc. at night. If it's really dark, it might look stupid and prove a bit difficult when you have 4 cops with lights blinking on and off, rather than having some light onwards all the time.

For the lightbar colors, some countries do use red/red, blue/blue etc. colors. A good point is that as Gran Turismo started adding different Safety Cars in the game, they have a good variety of different color and style lightbars.

Hopefully these safetycars would be the current cars in the game, as a separate model from the non-lightbar versions.