Photon Lighting Engine
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Photon is to designed to add authentic emergency vehicle functionality to specific vehicles along with support for basic vehicle lighting on supported cars.
This addon is the engine (base) only.
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Photon is a base engine to power advanced emergency vehicle and law enforcement functionality for vehicles in Garry’s Mod.
Photon will only apply to cars you have installed. No cars come with this addon. Any supported cars will automatically have vehicle lighting applied.
The look, performance and behavior of third-party Photon cars are the sole responsibility of their developer. Photon is only a tool that enables certain functionality. How cars look is largely dependent on their developer.
Cars that feature a "Photon Official" badge on the icon are made by me (Schmal) and all techniques used in their creation are open to the public domain.
Errors have largely been fixed over Photon’s several month history. If errors do suddenly occur, please check the following:
1. Was there a recent Photon update? Major release updates generally entail a few hidden bugs, so feel free to report them!
2. Installed any Photon cars recently? Check if uninstalling the specific vehicle corrects the error, or simply try resubscribing to the addon to remount it.
3. Do you run any additional advanced addons or custom code? There could be a conflict. If you find one, feel free to bring it up.
Car Lighting*
– Running lights (head and tail lights)
– Brake lights
– Reverse lights
– Turn signals/hazards
*(basic vehicle features are not necessarily a target focus, so support is typically very limited)
Emergency Lighting Development Features
– Realistic light behavior
– Support for rotating, pulsing or flashing lights
– LED, soft and cold halogen lighting
– Red, blue, amber and white and green LED colors
– Extensive brightness adjustment support
– Support for pulsing wig-wag lights, tail light hideaways, etc.
– Override any standard car light
Scene Illumination
– Independent switch for optional vehicle lamps (such as police takedowns or fire scene lighting)
Traffic Advisor/Auxiliary Lighting
– Control traffic advising functions independently of primary emergency lights
Emergency Sirens
– Over 45 different authentic international siren models (typically complete with wail, yelp, phaser and hi-lo tones) that can be selected and adjusted ingame.
Many popular and common tones based on real models from companies such as:
– Federal Signal
– Whelen Engineering
– Code 3
– Feniex Industries
– SoundOff Signal
– D&R Electronics
Also tones found internationally, from countries such as:
– Canada/Quebec
– France
– Austria
– United Kingdom
– Norway
– Sweden
– Switzerland
– Denmark
– Finland
– Germany
– Australia
Vehicle HUD
– Design inspired by the Whelen CenCom control panel
– Primary and auxiliary warning with light-stage meter
– Sirens with respective icons to represent perceived sound waveform
– Scene illumination/takedown section on supported cars
– Additional vehicle features
Vehicle Variant Support
– Extensive creation freedom when creating your own vehicles
– Modify a car to look however you want
– Specify skin, bodygroups, colors, etc. to apply as soon as car is spawned
Addon Props
– Place any prop to spawn on vehicle such as a lightbar, bumper, module, etc.
ALL CONTROLS ARE ADJUSTABLE IN-GAME IN THE UTILITIES MENU
Default controls:
Lights on/off: F
Siren on/off: R
Change light stage: Left-Alt
Change siren tone: Right-Click
Manual Siren/Alert Mode: T
Bullhorn: G
Auxiliary Lighting: B (short press for on/off, long press and release to change pattern/stage)
Illumination: X (short press for on/off, long press and release to chance mode)
Watch this YouTube video demonstration
Read this wiki for developer information[github.com]
Photon is multiplayer compatible with growing feature support. Default Photon specifications will apply to all supported cars that do not have a .VehicleTable property appended.
If you wish to use a custom Photon car, you will likely need to modify your spawn code.
If you truly enjoy Photon, the greatest thanks to me would be for you to help those less fortunate in your own community.
Assets and inspiration are due to so many incredible people.
Everyone who has contributed or authored ported assets are credited at: https://github.com/photonle/Photon/wiki/Credits
This addon is officially dedicated to all first responders around the world. Those who always run into danger. Those who place the lives of others before themselves.
Personal dedication: to my dad; my hero. And, to Boulder, CO Police Officer Eric Talley. EOW 2021-03-22. For the rest of my life, you will never be forgotten.
Photon is not endorsed nor in any way affiliated with companies or products named in this addon. The usage of trademarked product names are strictly for non-commercial entertainment purpose and should not be viewed as official or accurate depictions of real-world products.
All opinions or views otherwise expressed in this addon have absolutely no relation to any other product or brand name whatsoever.
Their usage is strictly for personal enjoyment, created by hobbyists and fans of emergency equipment.
All product depictions should be viewed as purely fictional and not representative of the respective companies and products.
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