Sky and weather

Rogue_Modder · Post by **Rogue_Modder** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:23 am

I am making a mod, i want to make the sky diffrent, and make it weather as time goes on.

idk if you can do this, but can u make a mod go from night to day? like a shader that changes over a time lapse

Thanks,
Dark R0gue

ogrish · Post by **ogrish** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:00 pm

Well day sky to night sky wont be possible, or at least wont sys link.
You could have a night sky, and have several lights come on by switch,
lighting differerent areas of map.

Rogue_Modder · Post by **Rogue_Modder** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 4:24 pm

yes plz. how can i do that?

Win · Post by **Win** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:09 pm

Weather: Weather can be scripted to start and stop, and change in intensity as time goes on at random intervals. It may even be possible to have multiple weather systems running at once, although I have not seen this first-hand.

Sky: You might be able to achieve a day to night transition using an animated shader and a special bitmap tag but I cannot say how well that would look (those shaders tend to degrade image quality). There is also the problem of having to darken the lightmap as time goes on, which may be possible via scripting but I do not know for sure, nor would it, I believe, be SLC.

Rogue_Modder · Post by **Rogue_Modder** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:13 pm

kewl, the guy what is helping me is good at SLC. ^^

Kyhkaen · Post by **Kyhkaen** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:53 pm

Dark-R0gue wrote:kewl, the guy what is helping me is good at SLC. ^^

...What? Please tell me you just mistyped that or something.

Rogue_Modder · Post by **Rogue_Modder** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:23 pm

nope, idk what SLC is but he does.

NotZachary82 · Post by **NotZachary82** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:30 pm

Wow.

SLC = System-Link Compatible. As in, it works online without any wierd glitches.

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:45 pm

I would assume day to night would be possible. It was in Halo 1 so I can only assume Halo2 is capable of it. Now the direction you need to take to achieve this may be another task to overcome.

Rogue_Modder · Post by **Rogue_Modder** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:48 pm

i know, but i will try.

and slc, oops, im new to the hole modding to make a good map, not just some proj, vehi and bipd mods to show to friends lol.

ogrish · Post by **ogrish** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:20 am

if you want to start out dark, then switch on a light, look here.
http://www.acemods.org/remnant/phpBB2/v ... 110e0fe455

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:14 am

If you can change the colour of the sky and keep the lightmaps the same, it's a good enough illusion to give the appearance that it's going dark. Or, you can do what is done in Halo 3 (actually, it's in all Halo games, it's just more prominent in Halo 3), and have multiple skies, like on the level 'The Covenant'.

Rogue_Modder · Post by **Rogue_Modder** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:21 pm

oh yeh, nice idea philly

Win · Post by **Win** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:51 pm

Thinking about this a bit more, it may be possible to have two coagulation BSPs, skies, and Lightmaps, one being day, the other night, and have a scripted switch between the two, like a trigger zone, or control (switch). Unfortunately the whole premise, while neat, would be a bit artificial because the switching would have to be player (and maybe even host) initiated, making it feel a whole lot less natural. And theres always the fact that its not a fluid game-play mechanic ;p

xbox · Post by **xbox** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:13 pm

It could be scripted to start after certain amount of time.

Win · Post by **Win** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:01 pm

I was under the impression timed scripts like that did not sync to clients. Or am I thinking of volumes?

xXFeRcHoXx · Post by **xXFeRcHoXx** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:37 pm

Win™ wrote:I was under the impression timed scripts like that did not sync to clients. Or am I thinking of volumes?

idk

To my knowledge, Scripts wont sync over System Link, maybe they're talking about a Local Match, but oh well, You can give to it a try.

Rogue_Modder · Post by **Rogue_Modder** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:18 pm

if someone could help me then that would me very much thanked, or a tut on scripting