Oh, how cool is this? Wonderful idea! I feel the urge to throw a party now.

Just checking cause I make typos like this all the time, but is it sinclude or is it supposed to be include? I put sinclude cause that's what you said but I'm just checking. I haven't played my game yet after dling it.

Really cool idea though!!

Wow, very impressive!

I love your party lights.

Wonderful idea! Thanks for sharing with us!

Very impressive! I like colored lights so much, they create such a nice atmosphere.

@tinkerbelljln: I took a look into other light files and it actually is "sinclude"

I love this!! Thanks so much :D

"sinclude" is correct

i dont have a lighting.txt
what do i do?

If you didn't have that file, you wouldn't be able to see anything in your game at all, as it's the base game lighting file which defines all the fundamental lighting states for the game.

Try highlighting the directory path text from my post, then copy and paste it into the location bar in Windows Explorer, that way you can be sure you're in the right folder.

Depending on how you've got your Windows folder view set up, it's possible that you have your preferences set to "hide extensions for known file types" in which case the lighting.txt file will simply appear as lighting

How cool! Thanks so much.

Wow! These are wonderful. Thanks alot.

Very cool! A new form of lighting is quite impressive!

This is AMAZING!!! I can't wait to test it out

I have tested it with the latest Scriptorium it worked fine. Many thanks for this nice lights.

These look sooo good. I love that I can light my yard without giving up floor space. I used the white ones to make a pretty wedding garden. Thank you again.

i want to download these lights, but i have scriptorium installed and the lights.txt file says DO NOT add anything manually to the file or the scriptorium may delete it! what do i do?

I've checked these (beautiful) lights with the Scriptorium, too, and they work fine (by the way, the Scriptorium hasn't changed much, lately; so, any "quite old" version should work fine...).

However, I've examined your packages, and I've found that their internal structure isn't perfect, regarding the custom lights; and this might be the cause of your erratic malfunctions when used in conjunction with the Scriptorium.

Keep in mind that, as far as I know (my knowledge of lights isn't perfect), the game usually applies the custom light relying on the name reported in the CRES; but, in case of problems (or if the .nlo file doesn't include all the info), then the game looks for the light configuration into the LGHT file; if still there are problems, the last resource is looking into the Text List 0x8E.

That said, examining for example the Blue PartyBulb, we can see the following:

1) CORRECT: the name of the cLightNode into the CRES (partyblue_light) is exactly identical to the name contained into the .nlo file.

2) NOT CORRECT: the name of the LGHT resource, in the package, is not the one that the object expects; this name should be in the form: customObjectName_customLightName_light_lght. In this case, it should be: lightingceilingvalue-[nicvncnt-6.10.2007-11152f]_partyblue_light_lght.
This is important because the .nlo file does NOT contain all the info: it contains only the definition of the diffuse light, not the practical (a.k.a. direct) light, and therefore the game must read the practical light from the LGHT file.

3) (Possibly) NOT CORRECT: the name contained in the Text List 0x8E (lightingceilingvalue_light) is not identical to the custom light name (partyblue_light); as a consequence, in some cases, if the object can't immediately find the partyblue_light, it "defaults" to the Maxis lightingceilingvalue_light. Actually, keeping the original Maxis reference in the Text List might help: if the user doesn't install correctly the NLO file, or the package has problems, the game will find anyway a working Maxis light to use. It's up the creator to decide if the object should act this way, or if he prefers that an incorrectly installed lamp should cast no light at all.

A more detailed explanation of the light working principles can be found in this InfoCenter article:
Modding InfoCenter - Lights and LGHT files.

Havelock and Numenor have tested the lights with the Scriptorium and found they work fine, so I'm sure you will have no problems either.

AFAIK the Scriptorium will only alter your lighting.txt file when it's first installed - there's no reason you can't (if you want) make additional changes to the lighting .txt file afterwards.

I've tested both methods and both work fine.

I'm very grateful for this valuable information, and will include it in future updates.

When I was investigating why my .nlo files in the Scriptorium_CustomLights folder were being ignored by the game, I looked into my lighting.txt file and found the following:

####################################################
# Support for Custom Lights added by the CEP3
#
wildInclude "CEP3_CustomLights/*.nlo"


####################################################
# Support for Custom Lights added by the CEP3
#
wildInclude "CEP3_CustomLights/*.nlo"


...whereas I would have expected the second reference to read

wildInclude "Scriptorium_CustomLights/*.nlo"

When i modified the second reference to read as above, the game was able to recognise .nlo files in the Scriptorium_CustomLights folder.

Oh! So you had a very old version of the Scriptorium, you were right! -
I'm glad you could fix it
BTW, that old version sometimes happened to edit the lighting.txt multiple times, like in your case: there should be only one "wildinclude", pointing to the scriptorium folder, and no reference at all to the old CEP3 folder, that doesn't exist any more (or better: it shouldn't exist any more: the recent installer move its content to the scriptorium folder and then delete the CEP3 one).

As for adding a manual line after the "wildinclude", you are right: it works. Nevertheless, reinstalling the Scriptorium will delete the manual lines, so it's somewhat dangerous, because all my tools are designed to be installed over and over without any problem (usually they must be reinstalled after exach new EP, for example).

I have updated the installation instructions for Scriptorium users in the light of Numenor's clarification above.

These are fantastic! Thank you for sharing them.

i've had these lights for awhile and i use them all the time for backyard parties/weddings. i just wanted to let you know they're great and to say THANKS!