[2025.1.1] Realistic Light Modes

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Authors: sq_paradox, Urfisch

Last revision: 28 Mar, 2025 at 21:50 UTC (2)

File size: 1.25 MB

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Description:
Overview:

Changes Red Light to a dimmed white light. Adds Emergency Lighting, low level red lighting with a 10% energy usage reduction. Removes Blue Light, leaving only the Silent Running in the Character Action menu (Tab key). Features Automatic modes for lighting and silent running.

Not compatible with Auto Sub Lights

Save game compatible

Settings File

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Settings
  • Automatic Lighting Enabled (Default: True)
    When True, Automatic Mode is available on the Light Switch
  • Normal Light Level (Default: 85%)
    Brightness of Day mode lighting, 100% is vanilla day mode
  • Night Mode Light Level (Default: 70%)
    Brightness of Night mode lighting, 100% is vanilla day mode
  • Night Mode Sleep Bonus (Default: 10%)
    Bonus to sleep satiation rate when Night Mode is active
  • Night Mode Performance Penalty (Default: 10%)
    Task Performance penalty applied to crew when Night Mode is active
  • Silent Running Swap Depth (Default: 9)
    Depth below which silent running engages when in automatic mode
  • Auto Silent Only when Alarmed (Default: True)
    When True, Automatic Silent mode will only active Silent running if the Alarm is active
  • Emergency Mode Light Level (Default: 75%)
    Brightness of Emergency mode lighting
  • Emergency Mode Energy Reduction (Default: 10%)
    Amount of Energy saved on Emergency Lighting
  • Automatic Emergency Mode (Default: True)
    When True, Emergency mode will automatically engage
  • Emergency Mode Damage Threshold (Default: 5)
    Cumulative damage in device health points, where Automatic Emergency mode engages
  • Emergency Mode Leak Threshold (Default: 3)
    Minimum number of leaks where Automatic Emergency mode engages
  • Red Night Light in Conning Tower (Default: False)
    When True, Night mode will use Red Light in the Conning Tower
  • Realistic Lighting Colors (Default: True)
    When True, day and night lighting will be a realistic (yellow/orange) color
    This setting will not be reflected on an existing save until the lighting preset is changed (that’s when the game applies color multipliers)
  • Custom Light Colors (Default: False)
    When True, Light color will be loaded from the Custom Light Colors page

Custom Light Colors
  • Day Mode (Default: Red 100% Blue 91% Green 72%)
    Color of Day Mode Lighting when Realistic Lighting Colors and Custom Light Colors are both set to True
  • Night Mode (Default: Red 100% Blue 84% Green 51%)
    Color of Night Mode Lighting when Realistic Lighting Colors and Custom Light Colors are both set to True

Special Thanks to Salamander for Custom Actions
Now integrated due to changes in 2024.1

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