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Darkness Unleashed - A true dark night mod and more [V1.0.0] [V1.0.7 in Testing]

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Darkness Unleashed

The true dark night mod and more!
by the Community & P!NK

Current Features [V1.0.0]:

  • 4 Presets (Night, Bright Night, Morning, Evening)
  • Easy Set Up (Just choose what preset should be used on what map)
  • Custom Flashlights
  • Night Preset Enables Speccular Reflections & More Dynamic Lighting
  • Increased Bullet Tracer Visibility
  • Reduced Sunglare / No Flares (Just Flashlights)
  • Global Brightness & Fog Settings For Night Preset
  • Custom Map Brightness & Fog Settings For Night Preset
  • Changes Mapname Accordingly To The Used Preset

Planned Features:

  • Voting System for Time Presets
  • Ticketbased Day/Night Cycle
  • Serverbased Day/Night Cycle
  • Realtime Preset editing / saving
  • Custom Loading Screens & Music
  • Custom HUD / Night HUD
  • Working Vehicle Lights
  • NV in Airborne Vehicles
  • NV Gadget
  • Work on NV balance

CURRENT TESTING BUILD (V1.0.7):

With this build you can test new features! (for now less features tho duh)

  • Faster Code / Loading Times (due to almost full rewrite)
  • Fixes Bugs from 1.0.0
  • Skyboxes!
  • No Morning/Evening Preset until live-build
  • Settings file now allows using the Standard Preset (set Map to false)
  • New Presets (due to Skybox change) not customized to every map yet.
  • V1.0.8 will introduce NV Goggles for Infantry & Air Vehicles

Some maps still crash because of the skybox load. Tested maps that work:

  • Sharqi
  • Bazaar
  • Seine
  • Gulf (Ugly Water tho)
  • Alborz
  • Metro
  • Shield
  • Nebandan
  • Ziba
  • Karkand (Ugly Water tho)

Needs PREMIUM or Armored Kill DLC to work.

Some Maps work better than others . We intend to customize each preset to each map, to get the most out of it in the future!

We recommend RUSH for a better experience until we add the vehicle features! :wink:

Download and/or contribute + Set up Tutorial:

Download the testing-build here:

Direct:
LIVE(V1.0.0):
Darkness-Unleashed-live.zip (19.6 KB)
TESTING(V1.0.5):
Darkness-Unleashed-live-wip.zip (17.2 KB)

To join the project contact us on Discord: (IllustrisJack#5355 & Lesley#0242)

Preset Night:

1920×1080 369 KB

1920×1080 291 KB

1920×1080 301 KB

1920×1080 399 KB

1920×1080 220 KB

Preset Bright Night:

1920×1080 485 KB

1920×1080 472 KB

Preset Morning:

1920×1080 486 KB

1920×1080 606 KB

1920×1080 649 KB

1920×1080 474 KB

Preset Evening:

1920×1080 788 KB

1920×1080 776 KB

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unknown1920×1080 777 KB

1920×1080 606 KB

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#2

Just wow! well done guys, looks like so much work has gone into this. Quick questions, I assume if you set a map to ‘false’ it just uses the default map? Also can you have a map twice say one with a preset and again without? and does this overide your maplist.txt or adhere to it?

Many thanks for this contribution :slight_smile:

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#4

Amazing !!!
this will be even more anoying for some players !!
lets camp !

#5

Awesome, these presets look outstanding. Now we can set the maps to the daytime which actual is. Sure a lot of work but i am also sure the community will love it. :clap:

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#6

<3 - We will try to get our voting function & day/night cylcle working asap so you can enjoy it even more! Thanks for the feedback! ;D

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#7

The screenshots look awesome!

For the day/night cycle, you can use our existing code and UI from here: Day & Night - Live change level's lighting during the game

The problem we had was getting a nice variation, so avoid switching on and off elements. I hope you guys get it better!

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#8

Thank you! We will definetly take a look at it! :wink: - We are still looking for people to join our team maybe we can combine efforts :smiley:

#9

the only isue i notice, it after a few hours loading a new map gots laggy and it need to reload the map, could be a squad tdm isue ,not sure, but pitch black is tough to play

#10

Sure, I will have a look on the code and try to combine stuff :+1:t2:

#11

I´m currently cleaning up the whole code / rearranging everything as we only went for function first. If you want to have access to the newest code just contact me on Discord if you have time :slight_smile:

#12

actualy, just a request, there is pitch dark, and the dark mode, something in between would be great, darker, but not that dark…

#13

Version 1.1 will contain more customization options for all presets. This will enable you to edit things to you liking more easily! :slight_smile:

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#14

– added Testing-Build [V1.0.5]