Modding the sky

SilentAngel · Post by **SilentAngel** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:22 pm

HELLOOOOOO!!

I need to know how to some tricks....for exemple:
How to change sky color with scripts
How to put flashes with scripts
Someone knows how to do it?:?:

PhilsEmpire · Post by **PhilsEmpire** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:43 pm

You mean like the level Druckkammern? You could try looking in that map's script file?

SilentAngel · Post by **SilentAngel** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:54 am

I mean have a black sky with tunders..
however I'll go to check Drukky scripts

neillomax · Post by **neillomax** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:10 pm

Isn't black........

$world farplane color 0 0 0
$world farplane 10000

and isn't thunder

exec global weather scr.

not sure about the top one............ been 2 long

it's been done.. somebody will jump in here.

$oldier Of Ra · Post by **$oldier Of Ra** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:17 pm

Isn't black........

$world farplane color 0 0 0
$world farplane 10000

Do you know what farplane is?

exec global weather scr.

And how this script works?

Okay, first of all there's a mod which changes skies, but it can only be done through radiant(meaning you need to have the .map file and you need to know how) and finishing it off through script, it's impossible to do only through script. You can add lightning(flashing) by using this in the prespawn:

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exec global/weather.scr::thunder

It depends on what map it's used, without presetting this in your .map this'll probably look ugly.

You can also use this, though it's server side and only works on stock maps: http://www.mods-r-us.net/page.php?id=249

neillomax · Post by **neillomax** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:45 pm

Yea, I know what farplane is. How's about farplane color 0 0 0 and farplane 75

$oldier Of Ra · Post by **$oldier Of Ra** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:01 pm

Then you can't see a thing. Screen's black, maybe your weapon if you're lucky lol

Also, I got more inside on this "will look ugly thing", don't use it in maps with bright skies, the flashes'll turn the skies blue for a sec.

Gold · Post by **Gold** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:35 pm

hes probaly talking about night mods...the use of fastsky and the global weather script used together to get lightning thunder and a black sky...maybe this info will help with getting a black sky..i think exec global/weather.scr was mentioned above to get lightning and thunder

http://www.modtheater.com/forum/showthr ... sky&page=2

$oldier Of Ra · Post by **$oldier Of Ra** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:02 am

Usually, weather.scr is exec'd globally (not thread-specific) because you're supposed to use it along with the map you created.

Gold, the link on tmt is down.

Tazz · Post by **Tazz** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:33 am

well for the dark sky i did this...it was on destoyed village and came out perfect....ran it like this for several months before turning the lights back on lol

put this in ur script before prespawn

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setcvar "r_fastsky" "1"
	$world farplane 3500
	$world farplane_color (0 0 0)

$oldier Of Ra · Post by **$oldier Of Ra** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:23 pm

nice one tazz

But changing it to other colours is impossible, silentangel (without the .map at least). Tazz' script removes the sky (ie making it dark).

You cannot however use weather.scr with this since that script resets the farplane.

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:05 am

As I have pointed out in another discussion on the subject, forcing fastsky with the setcvar command will only work on non-dedicated servers for the game host only, everyone else will see the sky as normal. You need to stufftext it periodically to everyone one the server.