LightCycle

v1.4.8

Turns a light, and the flame meshes under it, on at night and off during the day. alwaysBurn keeps it on.

Find placed ones with s:LightCycle. See Filter.

Where you put it

Put it on the light entity. The script reads the light on that entity and shows or hides every child. Torches, candles, and town lights use it. Day is from hour 6 through hour 20. Before 6 or after 20, or in an indoor atmosphere, the light stays on.

If the mission starts while the light is off, the children are removed and the script is removed. An editor tick only toggles visibility, so you can still preview the cycle.

What you set

Panel field	What to do with it
alwaysBurn	On: the light and its children stay visible at every hour. Off: night, or an indoor atmosphere, only.

What it does

The light component is shown or hidden with the children. A torch that is off at mission start loses its flame entities for that mission. alwaysBurn skips the hour test.

Where it lives

Modules\Native\Prefabs\lighting.xml is the main set (town_light, torch_wall_a, torch_wall_b, torch_long_a, candle_flame, and others). Wall torches are also in Modules\Native\Prefabs\archhitecture_aserai.xml. Kitchen, particle, and quest props copy the same script.

Examples

Town light, night only. lighting.xml, town_light. alwaysBurn false.

Wall torch that always burns. lighting.xml, torch_wall_b. alwaysBurn true. torch_wall_a_cycleoff in the same file also stores true.

Candle, night only. lighting.xml, candle_flame. alwaysBurn false.

Castle override. SandBoxCore\SceneObj\empire_castle_004 places torch_wall_a and torch_wall_c with alwaysBurn true, and torch_long_a with alwaysBurn true. candle_flame entities in that scene keep alwaysBurn false. The torch_wall_a prefab itself stores false, so the scene is the override.

Town walls. SandBoxCore\SceneObj\khuzait_town_g places torch_wall_a with alwaysBurn true.