Some of you may remember the old West Coast USA night lighting mod. I personally had a lot of memories with it. Unfortunately, It's been abandoned and is now sorely outdated. Cue to me 2 weeks ago, who wanted to make a movie scene at night, but it just felt... wrong. Traffic was lively, yes, but without the street lights it felt downright apocalyptic. So I decided to try to recreate it! I decided to go further than the original though, by lighting everything from the bridge to the road signs to even the radio towers! Luckily for me, this Isn't my first rodeo when it comes to map lighting. I had lit up modded maps before, and I had learned some new tricks. As of now, the freeway and parts of the road system opposite the city is lit up. As for those new tricks I mentioned? Well I'm a sucker for detail so I found a way to make the street lights *actually glow*, as well as how to create more! As for a release date, I have no clue. I'm trying to find a job so that takes priority. This will be my very first mod when it is completed. Feedback would be appreciated immensely! For now though, have some teasers as to what it looks like with traffic!
Thank you so much, could you make the buildings brighter during the night and work with a low LOD bias. I will use this in a video when this releases!
That's model editing unfortunately and I'm not sure how to do that. However, I have a few ideas on how to make the buildings brighter (although i need to test it).
Good job so far, and thanks for bringing this back! I will use this in videos and give credit because I think that this is a awesome mod!
That is what I plan on doing! Also there is a east coast USA with dynamic lights and you don't have a separate map and its really good.
I actually wanted to make this for ECUSA too, but the streetlight models are funky. Cant make them glow using my usual method, so that's not in the cards until I learn how to edit models.
the lights look very cool i wish the devs would add lights to that map because its so boring and dark with out the streetlights
Sorry for late response, been busy with IRL stuff. Finally found a job which is nice, but it and other projects like my movie have been taking up most of my time. HOWEVER, Progress has been made in the city section. Lower Industrial lighting has been completed, other than the interior of the warehouse as I'm still figuring things out on how to light that. I have also now separated the map so any game update won't break it into a million pieces. Here's some photos!
Thats sick, no rush please worry about real life, can't wait for this because I haven't made a nighttime video in forever. You are doing something I always hoped the devs would add so thanks!
