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[VSI] Emissive Controls

With this mod you can disable the base emissive color (using the "Emissive" layer) on any terminal block. For reactors, beacons and cockpits new terminal controls were added to help with your recoloring, but modifying the CustomData section for any other terminal block works too.

Adding the "[NoEmissive]" tag to the name of a terminal block will disable its base emissive layer. Removing the tag will try to restore the original emissive color.

NOTE: functional emissive layers (emissive0, emissive1, etc.) are not modified, so the different working states of blocks should still be displayed correctly. Also the red emissive for non working blocks is also shown even if you otherwise modified the emissive color.

Unfortunately despite how SE works inside, it is not possible to add terminal controls for the base TerminalBlock type, so I had to do them one by one hence the limited set of block types that have them. I thought these three that I added were either the most modded ones (reactors, cockpits) or the most troublesome (Azimuth Open Seat Cockpit or the vanilla beacon). If enough people want me to add controls for some other block type I will consider adding them.

The bright light emitted by the vanilla beacon is not controlled by the emissive color, so I added a separate change there. If enough people want it back (I doubt it though :)) I will remove it or make it configurable.

The format of the CustomData controlling the emissive color override is the following:


The name is case sensitive, so it should be written exactly like this and each parameter should be on their own line. The first value is the new emissive color (0-255/0-255/0-255) followed by the emissivity value (0.0-1.0), followed by a boolean value (True or False) telling the mod if you want the color to overwrite the original one (I guess this will be True in most cases).

I have added specific logic to make Cryochambers, Sensors and Jump Drives work. Enjoy!

I have refactored the code so the mod is way less intrusive now. I hope this will greatly decrease those unforeseen and weird issues some of you have been encountering with some other mods. If there are still problems let me know.

Updated for 1.189

The last update adding the controls to any terminal block seems to have cause some confusion, so I added restrictions as to which blocks will have emissive override controls and logic. As of this update, only the following types of block will have the controls: Beacon, Reactor, Cryo Chamber, Jump Drive, Converyor Sorter, Cockpit, Interior Lights (for the bulb), Spotlight (see interior lights), Decoy, Gyro, Gravity Generators (both types), Space Ball, Upgrade Modules and Artifical Mass. Upgrade modules currently don't show the yellow "not connected" color on their empty ports if their emissives are overridden. It would need a lot of work to fix it (again because of the very restrictive Mod API) and I am not sure it's worth it. If enough people needs it I might take a look at it in the future.