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Need HELP with SKY/ lighting.

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:53 pm
by acdc992004
Im new at mapping. I made a few test maps already which came out pretty good. But this map is my first outdoor one. I need help setting the sky and sunlight. I followed the tutorial for this and it came out ok. BUT there a few problems.
1. There is a shadow line across the map where one side is day and the other one is all shadow.
2. WHen i look forward when i play, I see a "black roof" in the sky. Is this because there is no roof on Radiant. There seems to be no roof. But I don't remember taking or deleting it off. BUT when i look straight up i can see the sky as you normally would.(black box dissapears.)

Here is what i put for the sky
suncolor 70 70 70
sundirection -45 90 0
sunflarename sun
(Its the same as the tut)

Here are some screenshots of the problem

1. THe shadow line
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2.The black box on the sky
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A pic of Radiant in my 3d view. Is the sky roof supposed to be missing? And what can I do to correct this.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:56 pm
by Mj
lol re-make the skybox! you seem to be missing the top of it :D

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:20 pm
by acdc992004
OK. Is the shadow line also related to the top of the skybox?

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:24 pm
by lizardkid
yes, the skybox needs to be just that, a box, a better explanation would be a sky-cube, but that doesn't ring the same way :P

it can be any shape too, for instance The Hunt's skybox has more than 100 edges to it. (i stopped counting at that)

about the shadowline, i'll dig up a topic about such a thing, it's a glitch with the light stage of MOH that a lot of new mappers experience. i've never had a problem with it but it seems to happen.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:31 am
by acdc992004
Thank you all for your help. And keep me posted about the shadow line glitch lizardkid :D

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:45 am
by Mj
The shadow line is related to the fact there is no top on your skybox :wink:

Suncolor emits from sky surfaces at whatever angle is chosen - that black bit is where the top should light up :)

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:18 am
by lizardkid
i can't believe how inept i am at finding a topic, looked all over the Mapping and General Disc forums, couldnt find any of the topics i had in mind.

but i think mj's right.

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:45 am
by acdc992004
Yes. Mj is right. I fixed the top and the shadow went away. Thanks everyone.

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:49 pm
by Cobra
the walls are perfect, but you need a skyroof. Add this skyroof of the end of your map, first you need finnish the map to add things in the map. After that create the roof.