oOve
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2 years ago The "laser" is as it is because I'm cheating. Initially I wanted to stay away from tweaking with Foundrys internal lighting algorithm, but I found a "quick hack" that made it look much better. The light starts out shaped like a pie-slice, but then the starting points are "pulled out" by a given thickness. Since it is "pie slice" shaped it will get thicher the further away it reaches before hitting something. ps. There is a setting for laserwidth in the start (in module settings).
If the internal lighting module is unchanged for V10 of Foundry, I might actually implement a parallell laserbeam.
I'm trying to use this to provide a line of lighted floor tiles. It's not exactly the "bouncing laser" usecase, but this is the only module I've found that can provide anything even close to a linear light source. However, I can't seem to get beams of light which neither narrow nor widen as they go. At a 1 degree angle, the beam gradually gets narrower as it goes, while at a 2 degree angle, it gets noticeably wider. 1.5 would probably be perfect, but it has to be a whole number.
It might help if there was a way to adjust the width of the beam at the start, but that may just then affect the far end equally.
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