Flares

Flares Overview

Nova supports several flare types of varying color and lifespan.  Flares are designed to be placed in the scene with absolute coordinates.  The flare effect will illuminate database features including terrain and water bodies.

Flares Configuration

No configuration needed to enable flares.

Flares Usage

Flares ICD Interface

Flare Types

Value	Flare Type
1	Green flare, 30 seconds lifespan
2	Red flare, 60 seconds lifespan
3	Orange flare, 120 seconds lifespan
4	Orange flare, 180 seconds lifespan
5	Chaff flare
6	Flash
7	CH47 Chaff
8	Star Cluster 1
9	Star Cluster 2
10	Star Cluster 3
11	Star Cluster 4
12	Star Cluster 5

Flares Runtime Operation

If setting values directly in Spy:

1. Set h2ig.dat.fx_data.flares[0].type_flare to 1
2. Set h2ig.dat.fx_data.flares[0].coord_flare[0], h2ig.dat.fx_data.flares[0].coord_flare[1], h2ig.dat.fx_data.flares[0].coord_flare[2] to a value from which you can see the flare.
3. Set h2ig.dat.fx_data.flares[0].flare_trigger to 1 to demonstrate the flare activation.

Flares CIGI Packets

Entity Control Packet for Flares

Flares FX Tuning

Tuning for Flares is available within the FX files located at E:\CM\software\<current release\DB\DB_SYSTEM\DB_SYS_DATA\FLARES.  In that folder is a Flares_base.fx which contains most of the available tuning parameters..  Individual channel tuning files are also within that folder and allow color tuning for each flare type.