Local Flashlight

[midnight basin]

My first mod that i made, it's quite simple. It adds a light (that acts like a secondary flashlight) to the player's camera that uses uses a battery system and recharges when it's not used (alongside having an indicator for the battery). Also very configurable, with custom colors and some configurable values and indicator styles.

https://github.com/ever39/LocalFlashlight

https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/Command293/LocalFlashlight/

i figured i'd post this in here since i haven't really fully tested the mod yet, so feedback about bugs or certain things that should be changed would be greatly appreciated!

[sterile canopy]

does it still work eith v50?

oh wait it was made for v50

[sterile canopy]

btw u should post this in the lethal company modding discord

[midnight basin]

small update to the mod:
-i reworked the code so that the gameobject only gets added when the in-game scene is loaded to avoid unnecessary NullReferenceExceptions
-added two new hud styles (circular and vertical bars)
-fixed the flashlight toggling when in the pause menu
-added a config for the cooldown before the battery starts recharging
-the volume of the flashlight now updates immediately after the config gets changed
-added some debug logs for when the controller gameobject loads or gets destroyed and when the light is toggled

[midnight basin]

i probably should now that i think about it a little more, i'll post the mod there later

[lusty vale]

love this mod

[sterile canopy]

Bet this mod is great

[midnight basin]

released v1.2.0, which includes:
-separate config options for HUD and light
-configs for changing HUD position
-more battery text options (accurate percentage and battery time left)
-(some) configs can be changed without having to rejoin
-fixed some bugs (indicator not fading in when using the flashlight at high battery times, flashlight not turning off and resetting its battery to 100% when the player dies)
-more logs have been added in case something goes wrong
-some code changes
-an updated readme to include the fact that the light can only be seen on the client of the player with the mod installed

[midnight basin]

alongside other smaller updates that i've released over the last few weeks, i updated the mod to v1.3, which has multiple bugfixes, more flashlight recharge options, cleaner configs and better overall optimization

[normal lance]

oooo this mod seems pretty good to throw in to balance with diversity's TrueDarkness feature... I do wonder if there's any feature for flashlight dimming/flickering to be had for it?

[normal lance]

I think I'd like to see if there could be an option of whether or not other players can see your light or only if other players with the mod can see the player's light....

because I see this as a great way to change up the use of flashlights in general

and also maybe some compatability with The Locker's light sensitive mechanic? Although it's not entirely a priority

[midnight basin]

once i learn networking i'll probably make it so other players with the mod can see your light, and ive added options for dimming and flickering of the light, i doubt that i could add compatibility with the locker mod though

[normal lance]

Ooooh okay! Great to hear :)

as for the locker compatibility its alright if you cant do it, again it shouldn't be that prioritized anyways (I just thought to bring it up since its a popular modded entity) so I'd only imagine it being done if you really don't know what else to do 👍

[normal lance]

How's that networking coming along? 👀

[midnight basin]

i'll work on it this week if i'm not too busy

[lusty vale]

will it still be client sided after networking?

[midnight basin]

i'll hopefully make networking a config option, but if it's not possible then i might make a separate version for it and keep the main mod clientsided

[normal lance]

both are good in my eyes 👍

[lusty vale]

yea

[midnight basin]

networking is real, i also kept the client-sided part of the mod, alongside other changes

[normal lance]

OOOOOOOO

is it like there's networking only between people who have the mod?

or how does it work?

Ohh okay it's not released yet

ABSOLUTELY looking foward to it

[normal lance]

also excited to see what else you did with this 👀

is one of em a fix to the weird bug the localflashlight has where when picking up a flashlight doesn't allow it to turn on even after dropping the flashlight?

it fixes itself somewhat when you pick up a fully depleted flashlight though

[midnight basin]

wait its not released?

[midnight basin]

i think i fixed that yeah

[normal lance]

Uhh I'm not seeing it... unless I'm dumb

[midnight basin]

yeah

[normal lance]

nono nvm it's released

[midnight basin]

yeah i screwed up two times and had to release two back to back hotfixes

[normal lance]

Oh 😭

it'll show up on r2 soon enough I imagine

[midnight basin]

not sure if the second hotfix is out but it should be there soon

yeah the second hotfix didnt appear on thunderstore yet

not really important since it just fixed flickering not working when networking was disabled

but the networking in general should work fine

[normal lance]

I'm not even getting the original 1.4.0 on my end 🤔

weird

ah there it is

[midnight basin]

you could get the version on github if it doesn't appear on thunderstore

[normal lance]

nah my internet probably was making it not show up 😭

it's there now

[midnight basin]

awesome

second hotfix should also be there soon hopefully

[normal lance]

aw damn I gotta redo all the configs and UI adjustments again

I don't mind

very nice changes from what I see in the changelog, lovely

wait a minute, did you just implement your own version of TrueDarkness (a feature from the Diversity Mod that makes the surrounding area from the player appear to be much darker when there's no light source) into the mod?

also you should join the lethal modding community server and make a thread there!

I'm sure there's lots of people that'd love to find out about this mod there

Oh wait you have already-

I'm dumb 😅

[midnight basin]

yeah, its just that it's a little more configurable