TheoTown

WARNING. This feature is not fully implemented. Mechanics and graphics subject to change. Proceed at your own risk.


I first recommend looking here; viewtopic.php?f=41&p=152003#p152003, and at animations there: viewtopic.php?f=41&t=7455. Best results with help of paint.net.

Information
Night light definitions are practically the same thing as animations. They are defined the same way as animations, but have a few additional attributes. These attributes are: and The first one makes sure the animation lights up and doesn't get darker at night. It should be always true if you are defining night definitions. False by default.
The second one makes the animation show up all the time (false) or only at night (true). If you are adding window lights to your building you should set this on true.

That's pretty much everything. If you want to append your night definitions to your buildings you should follow the default animation tutorial.
A list of in-game night definitions will follow later (probably), see lower.

Custom animations

Your buildings will probably use mostly in-game night definitions. However, you can add your custom ones that fit the game style if the shape you're looking for is unavailable. The default window light animation color is FFFBE5 and a gaussian blur of around 4 (paint.net value).


Animations made easy

Counting x and y coordinates for each window might be tiring and take a lot of time. The easiest and most user-friendly solution is to use ian's Animation Dev Tool. This plugin will allow you to create huge animaiton arrays quickly and effortlessly. No animation knowledge needed (at all)!

You can also use this tool to fetch ingame night definitions for manual animations. Good luck!


Edited to add/remove a few things.

Brilliant!
Just one question; could be one big frame with all the lights fitting the building instead of doing light by light?

Yes, but it doesn't look so great having the whole building lit.

If I'm correct, this will probably use some more texture space.

Not the whole building but a pattern of lights distributed all over the building. Also it could be a pattern of 4/5 floors frame repeated with animation for some skyscrapers, in order to save texture space.

Is that possible?

You just have to create a frame and define the animation. I think basic lights are still a better way.

Is the glow mandatory?

No

Not mandatory but surely looks better.

Brilliant

Btw wheres the texture of the light animation of those streetlights

I thought they wouldn't be useful, but apparently they seem to be. I'll send the ID tomorrow.

I don't get it

RayXP wrote: ↑21 Jan 2020, 05:43I don't get it

It's basically an animation definition with some extra steps. You might want to check anims tutorials before this.

wait what? i dont get it

Cliff wrote: ↑13 Feb 2020, 13:09 wait what? i dont get it

You don't get what?

Cliff wrote: ↑13 Feb 2020, 13:09 wait what? i dont get it

Night frames are basically simple animations. If you don't get it, I recommend studying the animation tutorial.

Hi :') how can I add headlights in vehicles? Like the one in motorcycles and fire truck

Just like any other animation
Try looking in the content_car.json

Magnificent