Zones (Bonfires, Anomalies...)

IMPORTANT

Status: Supported
Minimum Version: 1.0

General

• Volumetric lighting (optional)

volumetric_blowout = true ; Volumetric light (blowout)
volumetric_quality = 1.0  ; Render quality (light/blowout)
volumetric_distance = 1.0 ; Light distance (light/blowout)
volumetric_intensity = 0.7; Light intensity (light/blowout)

Bolt removal in anomalies

Set delete_bolts in a zone section implemented by CAnomalyZone. It controls removal of thrown bolts when they enter the zone. This is an engine feature and does not require Gunslinger scripts.

Parameter	Type	Default	Purpose
delete_bolts	bool	true	Allows the zone to remove bolts entering it

Behavior

With delete_bolts = true, the zone compares the bolt's destruction deadline with the current game time plus 100 ms:

• If more than 100 ms remain, the zone immediately requests removal through the standard Destroy() mechanism. Actual disappearance depends on destruction event processing.
• If 100 ms or less remain, the existing timer is preserved. An already expired timer is also left unchanged.

100 ms is a comparison threshold, not a removal delay. The threshold cannot be configured through LTX. The current implementation differs from original Gunslinger, which shortens the remaining lifetime to 100 ms.

With delete_bolts = false, the zone neither changes the bolt's lifetime nor requests its removal. The ordinary destroy_time timer from the bolt section still applies. The bolt can affect the zone again if its activation logic permits it.

Only bolts (CBolt) are affected. Grenades and other items are unchanged. The ignore_small, ignore_nonalive and entrance particle settings do not disable removal of a bolt already registered as entering the zone.

The setting applies independently to each zone. In overlapping zones, delete_bolts = false in one zone does not prevent another from removing the bolt. Leaving a zone does not cancel a destruction request already sent.

Example: retain bolts in a minefield

For CoP, CS and CoC, create configs/zones/mod_zone_minefield_bolts.ltx as a DLTX patch:

![zone_mine_field]
delete_bolts = false

In SoC, place the corresponding file in configs/misc/. The target game must contain the zone_mine_field section. When editing the original LTX directly, add the parameter to the existing section without the ! prefix.

The Gunslinger port already includes this exception in GunslingerModCop/configs/zones/mod_zone_minefield_zzz_guns.ltx; it needs no additional patch. Set true to allow removal. Omitting the parameter also selects true. Section inheritance and DLTX follow their usual rules.

The value is read once when the zone loads and cached in a flag. Restart the game after editing the configuration.

Manual verification

Use fresh bolts with an ordinary lifetime greater than 100 ms.

Scenario	Expected result
Enter an ordinary anomaly without delete_bolts	Bolt removal is requested
Enter a zone with delete_bolts = false	The ordinary lifetime applies; repeated activation depends on zone logic
Enter with 100 ms or less remaining	The existing timer is preserved
Enter overlapping zones with true and false	The zone with true can remove the bolt
Enter with a grenade or another item	This setting does not change its behavior