How do you remove the blinking lights?

Thu Apr 24, 2003 2:56 am by Guybrush1138

Hi! I've been getting headaches because of the blinking lights on top of ships like the Defender, and I've been pulling my hair out trying to turn them off.

Is there any way to turn off the blinking lights? (Not necessarily the docking lights)

Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:17 am by Ut

Look for the hulls of the ships you want to remove the lights from in goods.ini. If you look for li_elite (Defender) for example, you'll come across its hull. Note the nickname, and search for THAT now. You'll find the ship package.

Remove any line which references a blinking light. You can tell these apart from other lights because their name starts with a speed (slow, medium, fast).

eg
addon = SlowSmallOrange, HpRunningLight01, 1
addon = SlowSmallWhite, HpRunningLight04, 1

as compared to

addon = LargeWhiteSpecial, HpHeadlight, 1

If you want to get rid of the docking lights as well, remove the lines that reference HpDockLightXX, too.

eg
addon = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight01, 1

Hope this helps

Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:15 am by Guybrush1138

I eliminated all references to blue and purple ligts in goods.ini, but when I loaded a saved game in which I had the Patriot ship, the lights still blinked. I know I asked about the Defender; I should have mentioned I was flying a Patriot. Sorry. So,...is there any other .ini I'm missing?

Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:10 pm by Ut

The reason why the lights are still there is because you have to re-purchase your ship, unfortunately (I should have mentioned this before -- sorry).

Since what you're probably going for is a complete removal of the blinking running lights on all ships you buy, it's probably more convenient to remove the blinking properity from them, rather than take them off the ships.

Since the Patriot uses the SlowSmallBlue light, look that up in light_equip.ini

[Light
nickname = SlowSmallBlue
inherit = SmallBlue
avg_delay = 2
blink_duration = 3

Make the avg_delay = 0 (or 1 or whatever you like), and blink_durration as high as you like. This should greatly reduce the blinking. You could even try removing the avg_delay and blink_duration lines entirely (use comments

. I believe (though I'm not sure) this will take effect on your current ship. You can do this for every light you need to now, or just as you continue on through the game.

Wed Apr 30, 2003 12:22 am by Guybrush1138

Thank you very much! It worked!! Yay!!!!

Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:33 am by bakedpotato

you can also edit the color file for lights and give it no color 255, 255, 255

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