TightBeam - A Proper Flashlight for Schedule I

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A proper flashlight. It upgrades the game's own flashlight - toggle it with your flashlight key, then hold ALT + mouse wheel to dial the beam from a wide near-flood to a tight, far-reaching throw. No map-wide floodlight, no blinding glare - just a light that feels like a flashlight.

Features

• A beam you can aim and shape. Hold ALT + mouse wheel to slide a single Focus axis: wide end = a short, broad flood; narrow end = a tight cone that throws far. Range and cone angle both follow it.
• Velocity-sensitive focus. Scroll slowly for fine steps; flick fast and the beam races to the nearest extreme, easing in smoothly instead of popping.
• Fixed, sane brightness. Held within a hard floor and ceiling, so nothing blinds the screen. Brightness is not a player control; mods can drive it via the API for effects.
• Shadows and a cool-white tint by default, both configurable, so the beam is blocked by walls and reads against the game's warm lighting.
• In perfect sync with the game. It drives off the game's own flashlight state, so on/off never falls out of step - your flashlight key toggles it, and it swaps the vanilla point light for its own clean cone.
• Works in co-op. Everyone else's flashlight becomes a TightBeam cone too, aimed where they are looking rather than sitting on their chest, with their own focus, brightness and colour. Players who join late see the lights that are already on - the base game never tells them about those. Capped, distance-culled and shadow-free by default, and players without the mod still get a cone instead of the vanilla dot.
• Light-touch and update-resilient. A spotlight that follows your camera - no gameplay rewired and nothing written to the game's own state; a tiny guard keeps ALT+scroll from cycling your hotbar.
• Cross-mod API. Other mods can drive the beam (dim, flicker, blink, override) through a drop-in shim that is a safe no-op when TightBeam is absent. Full reference on the Modder API wiki.

Controls

• Flashlight key (your game bind) - toggle on/off
• ALT + mouse wheel - focus (wide near-flood to tight far-throw)

On/off uses your game's own flashlight key; the focus modifier is rebindable in the config.

Requirements

• Schedule I (IL2CPP) with MelonLoader 0.7.3+. No other dependencies.

Settings

Enabled, FocusModifierKey (LeftAlt), DefaultFocus (0.5), DefaultIntensity (7), MinIntensity/MaxIntensity (1/20), RangeWide/RangeNarrow (8/34), AngleWide/AngleNarrow (66/16), ColorHex (#E6F2FF), CastShadows, plus fine focus-feel tuning. In UserData/MelonPreferences.cfg under [TightBeam].

License

MIT. See the included LICENSE.md.