This one's an accident. Actually I was trying out one the aircraft selections with the Midway project. Took Pretzel's B17 to see if I could lob a bomb on the Japanese main fleet. Unbelieveably I hit the Battleship Yamato from 10,000 feet. This is something I will never do again if I play EAW until I'm 90!
Anyway, despite having three engines smoking and a crowd of angry Zeros after me I try to make it back to Midway Eastern Island. Having used "skip to next" its rather dark as I get near the atoll. As the airfield approaches I see the twinkling of lights and almost fall out of my chair in surprise. All the PAW towers I had placed on Eastern and Sand Island are lit up from the inside. There are also other sources of light from the parked wildcats. I had not looked at the Midway atolls in darkness since I set them up.
I put the B17 down and try not to destroy too many buildings in the process, and examine the light sources with the free camera. I exit the game and put one of the towers into the 3dz editor to examine the elements and see which is using the luminous colour. It turns out that the panels generating the light are defined in the 3dz as a type no.3 "coloured polygon-surface painted in single colour of index given". The colour indices used by the panels concerned are 6, 8, and 15.
At the moment I'm not sure how to use this... its 1.58 am here in the trench and I'm off to me bunk. Thought I'd share it before before I go off duty!
Moggy
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