Light effects stopped working

[zacky5000]

Good day. I have a question. Why is it that the light effects of the plugin I created suddenly stopped functioning? I mean, the plugin itself is functioning properly, but I'm confused because the light effect I coded into its JSON file doesn't work anymore. The codes are there, but the lights don't appear in the structure anymore once I build it unlike before when I finalized the code for its lights so I could submit it and get my plugin published.

I'd like to thank the TheoTown team, by the way, for approving my plugin despite having a bit of flaw in its appearance. I'll work on correcting its night animation once I learn about what mistakes I've made in the codes.

Name of the plugin I created is Barangay Hall. The one with the "HQ" on its roof. :3

[anhkatori2]

Maybe the building is lack of energy ?

[zacky5000]

Uh... I don't think so. The neighboring buildings are lit up during night time except the plugin building I made. I also tried removing the plugin manually then downloading it directly from the game, hoping that it will run with lights again. Unfortunately, it didn't.

I have sufficient energy for the buildings in my city currently. Even have an excess at that. I don't understand why it went that way...

[TheFennekin]

Would you mind sharing the code to us?

[zacky5000]

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[{
    "id": "$BarangayHall00",
    "type": "public",
    "author": "Plugin creator website 3.0 & zacky5000",
    "width": 2,
    "height": 2,
    "frames": [{
        "bmp": "Barangay Hall.png"
    }],
    "title": "Barangay Hall",
    "text": "The smallest government building in the Philippines. Provides management services, including peacekeeping and fire disaster response, for small towns.",
    "price": 2000,
    "monthly price": 150,
    "build time": 30,
    "power": -4,
    "water": -4,
    "influence management": 150,
    "influence police": 150,
    "influence fire department": 150,
    "burnable": true,
    "destroyable": true,
    "needs road": true,
    "animation":[{"id": "1x1l", "x":16, "y":1},{"id": "1x1l", "x":20, "y":-1},{"id": "1x1l", "x":24, "y":-3},{"id": "1x1l", "x":21, "y":3},{"id": "1x1l", "x":25, "y":1},{"id": "1x1l", "x":29, "y":-1},{"id": "stair_ltr3", "x":19, "y":-12},
    {"id": "stair_ltr3", "x":23, "y":-10},{"id": "stair_ltr3", "x":35, "y":-4},{"id": "stair_ltr3", "x":39, "y":-2},{"id": "2x2l", "x":19, "y":-9},{"id": "2x2l", "x":23, "y":-7},{"id": "2x2l", "x":35, "y":-1},{"id": "1x2l", "x":30, "y":-2},{"id": "1x1l", "x":39, "y":1},
    {"id": "1x1l", "x":40, "y":1},{"id": "stair_rtl3", "x":48, "y":-3},{"id": "stair_rtl3", "x":52, "y":-5},
{"id": "stair_rtl3", "x":56, "y":-7},{"id": "2x2l", "x":48, "y":0},
{"id": "2x2l", "x":52, "y":-2},{"id": "2x2l", "x":56, "y":-4},{"id": "1x4l", "x":26, "y":-22},
{"id": "1x4l", "x":29, "y":-21},{"id": "1x3l", "x":26, "y":-18},
{"id": "1x3l", "x":29, "y":-17},{"id": "1x1l", "x":27, "y":-19},
{"id": "1x1l", "x":28, "y":-18},{"id": "1x3l", "x":31, "y":-18},
{"id": "1x3l", "x":34, "y":-18},{"id": "1x2l", "x":31, "y":-15},
{"id": "1x2l", "x":34, "y":-15},{"id": "1x1l", "x":32, "y":-19},
{"id": "1x1l", "x":33, "y":-19},
{"id": "1x1l", "x":33, "y":-13},
{"id": "1x1l", "x":32, "y":-13},{"id": "1x1l", "x":32, "y":-15},
{"id": "1x1l", "x":33, "y":-14},
{"id": "1x1l", "x":34, "y":-13},
{"id": "1x1l", "x":35, "y":-12}]
}]

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Would you mind sharing the code to us?

There's my code. It's a bit messy, but trust me, it worked before I submitted it for publishing. Even tested it on my own cities during test runs. The only difference was the lights are not working anymore. Not sure why...

[zacky5000]

Update: Lights are back up now. Weird... It worked all of a sudden. Last night, when my game time was set to "real-time" and I didn't touch anything, the lights in my plugin weren't there even if it was night time. I toggled the time mode from "real-time" to "night" just now and it worked once again. As in the lights in my plugin went back! How come it appeared as if there was a time-based interval in my plugin's light code even if I didn't include one? @-@

[TheFennekin]

Hmmm... probably in-game issue or so. I also try putting

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"light":true,
"light switching":true

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on the building code itself on my plugins. Idk if that will work tho

[zacky5000]

Hmmm... probably in-game issue or so. I also try putting

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"light":true,
"light switching":true

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on the building code itself on my plugins. Idk if that will work tho

Hmm... I have doubts with that code. I tried using that before, but I haven't seen it do anything for the plugin I made that's why I relied on the Animation Dev Tool for the lights instead.

It maybe is an in-game issue, I guess. Hmm... I hope it doesn't occur again anytime in the future... If it does, I'll have to rework my codes again.

[TheFennekin]

I don't see any problem with your code though... 70% sure that it's an ingame problem

[zacky5000]

Thanks for the responses, guys. I'll be working on a new project now. I hope my recent issue doesn't persist in the future. Thanks again!