Spekao Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 In anticipation for the release of SWTOR, and my eagerness to play and enjoy it, my wife purchased me a brand new PC as an early Christmas gift - an Alienware Aurora ATX. With this new system was a feature Alienware developed called AlienFX through which you can not only change the colors displayed by your system and some of the peripherals (like the TactX Keyboard and mouse), but also have the system itself change them when certain programs are run. Another feature of the alienFX is the ability for game developers to actually program their products to interact with a system's lighting through an API. Currently the list of games that do this is fairly short, but EVE and City of Heroes have both integrated it into their games and I am hoping this is something the developers of SWTOR would be interested into doing as well! One thing I would love to see it do is have the system flash gold when a character achieves a level. Unfortunately there is no way for an owner of a system with AlienFX to make this happen, it is reliant solely on developers to do so. My current placation for this is to have my default theme set to morph my system lights slowly between long sets red and blue, my mouse lights set to green, and the top keyboard zone set to blue and bottom zone (keys) set to red - whereas when I'm not playing I manually have to set it back to my non-SWTOR preferred theme of system-wide green with purple alienhead, mouse set to red, and keyboard set to top orange/bottom blue. Please consider at least looking into what the API integration entails, and hopefully it will be something fairly simple and low in time consumption so that it may be used. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat-ster Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Interesting and I agree this would indeed add to the immersion of the game, however COST/Benefit - its not at the top of the list. I would like to see "footprints" - is that much to ask for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spekao Posted November 6, 2012 Author Share Posted November 6, 2012 Just checking to see if this is a viable option yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanbaal Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Pushing this again. Big want! Imagine the whole lighting turning red whenever you are in battle! Would be nice, nice, nice. Other games are doing it too! c'mon Bioware/EA, I know you can! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjmck Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I used to own an M17x and the lighting system in it was synced to the game, it was green during normal play and turned red when I was in a fight, sadly I don't remember how It was set up to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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