Costum sky ... how???

Psycho · Post by **Psycho** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 6:40 pm

I am not new to mapping for MoH:AA. I stopped mapping about half a year ago. And a week ago I was bored and picked up the mapping again.

And then I run in a problem. I want to use as much costum textures as possible. Now I got a very nice texture for the sky. I want to make it in MoH:AA but I can't figure it out how. I found the script and textures for the existing skys. But they don't make sense to me. Could you guys tell me how to make a costum sky? I am out of options that I can think of ...

Franko74 · Post by **Franko74** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:13 pm

Hi, Psycho

U can make fine custom sky with photoshop, and photoshop plugins.
There is a cool plugin what name is four season..
U can make nice sky with it...

Good luck:
F74

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:24 pm

Hi Psycho! Back again!

there are several threads about custom sky textures, why not use the search button?!
Hopefully u have your 6 images (one for each face of the sky "cube", then look at e.g.: http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~map/mohaa/ ... highlight= ,
http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~map/mohaa/ ... highlight= or
http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~map/mohaa/ ... highlight=!

hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:24 pm

I think the shaders have to be customized to moh.

Psycho · Post by **Psycho** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:53 pm

Thanks guys! I will try it at once!

Psycho · Post by **Psycho** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:07 pm

Ok I have got a new problem

. I have in Photoshop 7.0 but how can I crop a image to 512*512? I know how the cropping works but I never know how big my square is. I see that you can give the crop height and width but nothing happens when I fill those things in.

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:28 pm

maybe there'll be someone with an English PS7, mine is German, but i give it a long shot...

open menu 'image' and there 'image size'. below u'll find two checkboxes: 'keep aspect' (changing width will change height as well) and 'recalculate image'. if your image does not have same height and width, uncheck the first, else leave it checked. then check the 2nd and u can enter a new number of pixels. If it was unchecked, u would just change the resolution. Hope this helps... the menu names might be a bit different, though...

Psycho · Post by **Psycho** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:52 pm

Ok I got all my things now. Only the sun blinds you when you look at it. This is not good because the sun is almost behind the horizon. So how can I change that? I'll post a screen of it later on!

http://members.lycos.nl/markalbers/look.jpg

Axion · Post by **Axion** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:43 pm

In worldspawn, enter-

sunflaredirection

And then enter x,y, and z values for where you want it come from.

Psycho · Post by **Psycho** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:05 pm

Yes I already got the sun direction. Its in the same position as the sun in the sky texture. But its to bright. As said before it blinds you wich it shouldnt be doing it because the sun is almost behind the horizon. Anymore ideas?

Axion · Post by **Axion** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:23 pm

Ok, enter this-

suncolor

and three values for the color (Red, Blue, Green)

Psycho · Post by **Psycho** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:32 pm

got already that one also. Got them as 30 30 30. The map is alot darker but the sun is still blinding me. Oh, and I have deleted my sunflare.

Axion · Post by **Axion** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:56 pm

The third time is a charm, as they say.

Have you also tried using

sundirection?

Axion · Post by **Axion** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:08 pm

I just remembered that Crunch has written an excellent tutorial on sun direction. You'll find it here- http://www.freewebs.com/crunch/tutorials.htm

Psycho · Post by **Psycho** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:29 pm

Oh please read my post! I have got everything (wich includes the direction) but the sun is blinding me

! It's to much for the morning sun! But thanks for your help anyway

Anymore idea's?