More Realistic Stormy Weather

Reish Vedaur · Post by **Reish Vedaur** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 3:48 pm

I was wondering something... when I have my map raining and what-not, the lightning that shows up is blue. Why is that, and how can I get it to be either white or very light-pink? (about like this; I know that's faint, but it's there)

mohaa_rox · Post by **mohaa_rox** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 8:50 am

i think u have to edit the weather.scr and change the color of the lightning.

Post by **jv_map** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 2:17 pm

Or it may just be your monitor...

Reish Vedaur · Post by **Reish Vedaur** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 4:13 pm

It's definitely not my monitor; the color is correct in all the other maps included with MOHAA/SH.

Angex · Post by **Angex** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 5:21 pm

I had the same problem, and made a post about this a while back. Un-fortunatly I never solved it !!!

As far as I'm aware, although it looks blue on your computer it'll be fine on everyone else's. I noted this when playing a user-made map, I sore the lighting as blue, but other people had no trouble.

Reish Vedaur · Post by **Reish Vedaur** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 9:45 pm

That makes no sense... only certain people playing user-made maps have the problem, but under no other circumstances?

Angex · Post by **Angex** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 10:30 am

Reish Vedaur wrote:That makes no sense...

You don't have to tell me that !

panTera · Post by **panTera** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 1:21 pm

just a wild guess;
could it be that the lightning colour defaults to blue? Are you useing farplane fog and if so what values did you use?

this part comes from the m5l1a.scr:
level.farplane = 3500
level.farplanecolor = (0.333 0.333 0.359)
exec global/weather.scr

Reish Vedaur · Post by **Reish Vedaur** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 1:55 pm

Hrm... I'm not using farplane... Are you suggesting I try it? Cuz it'd be fairly hard, considering the size of my maps (one of them is just a mid-sized muddy field with walls around it).

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:58 pm

This is the part of the weather.scr that does the flash

flash:
setcvar "r_fastsky" "1"
$world farplane_color (0.9 0.9 0.9)

for (local.i=1;local.i<level.weatherFs+1;local.i++)
level.weatherF[local.i] show

end

unflash:
setcvar "r_fastsky" "0"
$world farplane_color level.farplane_color

for (local.i=1;local.i<level.weatherFs+1;local.i++)
level.weatherF[local.i] hide

end

it changes farplane_color to (0.9 0.9 0.9) then back could it be that if you have no farplane_color it causes a problem? ( 1 1 1 ) is white so (.9 .9 .9 ) must be almost white maybe play around with different farplane_color values if it is a rainy day try a gray farplane_color like said above

level.farplane_color = (0.333 0.333 0.359)

Reish Vedaur · Post by **Reish Vedaur** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 10:26 pm

Alright, most excellent.

Now one last, quick, fairly silly question: Where would I put the modified weather.scr in my .pk3?

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 11:21 am

don't modify the weather.scr just set a farplane_color in your script . As a matter of fact if you don't set a farplane_color then farplane_color is nil or 0 0 0 so you say the sky is blue could it be for the couple of sec between the flash and the resetting of the farplane_color what you are seeing is black because the farplane_color was not set in your map script ?

$world farplane_color level.farplane_color

if level.farplane_color is not set then it is 0 or black

Reish Vedaur · Post by **Reish Vedaur** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 4:38 pm

...
Oh...
heh.. duh... <hits himself>

Okay, to test your theory I got on my highest FPS map, "Big Plain Field," and watched the sky very, very closely. No black. Just blue. About like this, as if that matters.

At any rate, then I changed the farplane_color to .333 .333 .359 (it wasn't set beforehand, obviously), and the lightning still looked the same.

Then I used farplane_color / 1.0 1.0 1.0 and still nothing changed.

.. I realllllllllly hope I'm not doing something ridiculously stupid.

Although I did just realize, changing the farplane_color for the map shouldn't do anything since the weather.scr replaces it, not adds to it.