[Unfinished Feature Concept] Flashbulbs

[WibleWobble]

flashbulb.mp4

Hello,

I recently had the idea to add remote flashes to the mod. With my current code, you are able to bind placed flashbulbs to a camera and when the camera flashes, they flash as well. The item is currently untextured and the code is not very clean as I wanted to get some insight as to if this feature has a place within the mod and if I should continue working on it or not.

I find that when playing in survival with this mod, there are times where I want to stage the look and feel of a shot a little more than just standing in a location and shooting, or I want a controllable light source but I am standing far away from the subject so the light does not reach very well, if it does at all.

Here is an example of what I mean:

No Flash

Camera Flash Only (Notice how only one side of the structure is lit, and it is not very strong)

Flashbulbs + Camera Flash

And here is the placement of the flashbulbs

This is definitely more of a niche and cosmetic feature than a functional one, and that is exactly why I am doing this PR; if it does not fit into the mod, its not too far along so no harm done. And if it makes the cut, it is far along enough to be easily finished.

[mortuusars]

This is a really good idea, I'll add it (or something close to it) for sure. Thanks!
I'm currently busy with other projects though, so it'll have to wait a bit.

[WibleWobble]

Completely understandable. I will take some time to continue working and get to a nice and presentable state. I also just noticed a funny bug where moving a bound flashbulb to another stand causes it to flash at the old stand's location, I am not short on work :D

[mortuusars]

I haven't spent much time thinking about it, but maybe it would be better to just activate all stands in range? Then on/off toggle can be added to the stand itself (by sneak using, for example), so individual flashes can be enabled/disabled this way.

This would remove the need to track their id's and bind them to the camera.

[WibleWobble]

This could work, But I think it would end up being the same gameplay as the ID's however, as you still need to go around clicking on cameras you do/dont want, so it kind of comes down to what code is better.

Doing a radius is definitely cleaner, I just think it could take away from a bit of the explicit intent of binding cameras because there could be some user error in forgetting to enable or disable a bulb before shooting

Edit: I also intended to have a feature at some point to put a quick highlight or marker on bound flashbulbs as a nice tip

[mortuusars]

Yeah, I envision some indicator on bulbs to show which are turned on.

[WibleWobble]

Oh that could be nice, a little red light on the top or something. I am working on revamping/texturing the model right now