Unwanted Flashing Lights, Possible Cure!

[WoodMan]

Hey all,

Other modders and I have experienced random flashing lights on ships where they are not meant to be. It's extremely annoying.

The ship below had unwanted flashing lights all over it, they are only supposed to appear where you place a pure yellow pixel, but sometimes the randomly appear elsewhere for no reason whatsoever. This particular ship had 6 extra flashing lights on it around the front end.

I took the ship and added a black background (create a new layer in your paint program, Photoshop or Gimp probably required) and fill it black. Then save your ship as a 32bit .bmp file instead of a .png

The result is that only two lights now show on the ship, exactly in the two spots they are meant to. The picture below is using a .bmp file instead of a png and it appears to function and look fine in the game.

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: WoodMan

Hey all,

Other modders and I have experienced random flashing lights on ships where they are not meant to be. It's extremely annoying.

The ship below had unwanted flashing lights all over it, they are only supposed to appear where you place a pure yellow pixel, but sometimes the randomly appear elsewhere for no reason whatsoever. This particular ship had 6 extra flashing lights on it around the front end.

I took the ship and added a black background (create a new layer in your paint program, Photoshop or Gimp probably required) and fill it black. Then save your ship as a 32bit .bmp file instead of a .png

The result is that only two lights now show on the ship, exactly in the two spots they are meant to. The picture below is using a .bmp file instead of a png and it appears to function and look fine in the game.

I'm guessing that it treats the solid black as an alpha channel transperancy...much like a 3d transparency map treats pure black (0,0,0) as a transparent surface.

[Igard]

Awesome, I'll try this next time I get the problem.

[Setekh]

Sweet, nice discovery!
I had some ships in my HW2 set that phantom lights appearing on them. I managed to fix them but it took much longer to figure out.