From 03ff22fbbc0fe328a674cb83b6ec74c71ca8957a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MrStonedOne <kyleshome@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 22:31:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Adds the ability to set a light source's high end Makes
 starlight use new system to have far spreading low levels of light rather
 then near spreading high levels of light.

---
 code/game/turfs/space/space.dm           |  2 +-
 code/modules/lighting/lighting_system.dm | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/code/game/turfs/space/space.dm b/code/game/turfs/space/space.dm
index cc02c1959aa..292166d30dd 100644
--- a/code/game/turfs/space/space.dm
+++ b/code/game/turfs/space/space.dm
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 	if(config)
 		if(config.starlight)
 			for(var/turf/simulated/T in RANGE_TURFS(1,src)) //RANGE_TURFS is in code\__HELPERS\game.dm
-				SetLuminosity(3)
+				SetLuminosity(5,1.5)
 				return
 			SetLuminosity(0)
 
diff --git a/code/modules/lighting/lighting_system.dm b/code/modules/lighting/lighting_system.dm
index e332250336c..55b936cb283 100644
--- a/code/modules/lighting/lighting_system.dm
+++ b/code/modules/lighting/lighting_system.dm
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 /datum/light_source
 	var/atom/owner
 	var/radius = 0
+	var/cap = 0
 	var/changed = 1
 	var/list/effect = list()
 	var/__x = 0		//x coordinate at last update
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@
 #else
 	distance = max(abs(x - L.__x), abs(y - L.__y))
 #endif
-	return LIGHTING_CAP * (L.radius - distance) / L.radius
+	return ( L.cap ? L.cap : LIGHTING_CAP ) * (L.radius - distance) / L.radius
 //LIGHTING_CAP == strength for now
 
 
@@ -178,7 +179,8 @@
 //If we are setting luminosity to 0 the light will be cleaned up by the controller and garbage collected once all its
 //queues are complete.
 //if we have a light already it is merely updated, rather than making a new one.
-/atom/proc/SetLuminosity(new_luminosity)
+//The second arg allows you to scale the light cap for calculating falloff. (0 for default, null for no change)
+/atom/proc/SetLuminosity(new_luminosity, new_cap)
 	if(new_luminosity < 0)
 		new_luminosity = 0
 
@@ -187,10 +189,12 @@
 			return
 		light = new(src)
 	else
-		if(light.radius == new_luminosity)
+		if(light.radius == new_luminosity && (new_cap == null || light.cap == new_cap))
 			return
 	light.radius = new_luminosity
 	luminosity = new_luminosity
+	if (new_cap != null)
+		light.cap = new_cap
 	light.changed()
 
 /atom/proc/AddLuminosity(delta_luminosity)