I never made any game whatsoever.
Ok so I have a idea for a game
I’m going to add it as a mod to another game
I want to remove all the lights in a unity game and fill the game with complete darkness and spotlights that flicker according to the music you are playing.
Different colors almost like a concert.
I think this would be a first for this genre of game 6 dof
The game I would like to do this with is this
I would like to make the flickering go exactly with the music.
I would make it so it doesn’t flicker so much to have a seizure
Just enough to get a wide change in how light impacts the game.
There is nothing wrong with the lighting in the game. I just want to create this to almost make it look your playing a 6dof game mixed with a concert.
The music is wonderful as well but I am thinking of different music going to lighting like this.
I want the focus on electronic music
But I want this system to go with any music
Also
I’d like to draw color patterns that are almost neon coloring traveling the walls that emit light.
Also another thing would be like
Enemy ship is seen
Blackness comes
enemy ship is gone
Flicker of light enemy is in a new position.
I would work on it and perfect it and release it as a mod.
I would make it a bunch of settings like slow
Faster
Fastest with a few steps in between
How many different patterns of light you want.
Static mode for people who just wanna play the game without the lights but to play their own music
Lyrics mode
Color.
Only problem is how I would make a UI that allows me to put music in a game and how to make lights go with music
Regarding modding:
Without the source code you can’t do it. And if you had the source, it would still be a big job, requiring actual experts. Also as far as I know, that game isn’t moddable. You need to have mod support and that still would not be enough - the authors would need to add support and this would probably take months.
Wow
a moderator that was quick thank you for the quick response.
With this game they are releasing editing tools after the game drops like 6-8 months after which would be around i think this time next year. I guess I would have to wait should I mess around in unity. I do not want to create my own game because these are the creators of descent and I have a weird vision that would be really niche and 6dof games are already niche
descent underground got delisted from steam
Sol contigency got shuttered down by money
geocore only has so many people playing it
neon xsz is a great game but has even less.
I do not want to compete here.
I guess I will try unity out to get the hang of it every once in a while and try doing things till it releases then I will probably come back here and ask the same question lol.
You have to ask the developers of the game to add your requests if they are adding modding support, or point them to this thread, because modding it for sound and light is a non trivial thing, and quite specific, and they will have to decide if it’s worth it to them.
They’re thinking of having a level editor. (I mean, a public level editor, they already have one for development.) This is nowhere close to mod support, but as mentioned, even mods are very specific and not something where you can just do whatever you want. If you really want this, you’re going to have to make your own game from scratch.
