Excrubulent
SMSatisfactory Modding
•Created by Excrubulent on 12/31/2024 in #help-developing-mods
How to detect when the player is in a hypertube and overlay a blacking-out effect on the camera
Okay, so I'm making a mod, it's my first time modding this game, and like the title says, I want to add a black-out effect, like a fighter pilot experiences, and similar to the damage vignette, whenever the player is in a hypertube.
The reason for this is basically that I've discovered that hypertube launchers - and especially the type I'm designing - create a fairly serious photosensitive epilepsy risk. It turns out that dimming the screen can fix this issue, and I think that doing this with a black-out effect is a) cool, b) kinda funny that the hypertubes are so intense for the pioneer and c) makes sense in-universe.
I have already made a suitable effect texture. I just need to know how to detect the hypertube and overlay the texture.
I'm quite comfortable with both blueprints and C++, so whatever is the simplest way to achieve this is better for me.
Once I've got that working I'll look for some advice about what resolution to make the texture, but that's just implementation details at that point.
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