| Category | Editor |
| Created | 12.01.2011 19:36 |
| Robert Smith (Unknown) | 12.01.2011 19:47 |
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| Is it possable to enlarge the sky box? I have a layout for a 4096x4096 map but the skybox seems to be limited to 2130x2130. Is it possible to edit it with the editor or possibly to write a script to expand it's size? |
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| Stefan Geiger - GIANTS Software | 13.01.2011 09:15 |
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| You can load just any sky box in your map. The line self.environment = Environment:new("data/sky/sky_day_night.i3d", true, 8, true, true); or similar specifies the i3d file of the sky box. Just copy the existing sky box to your mod and scale it. |
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| Robert Smith (Unknown) | 13.01.2011 15:11 |
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| Thanks Stefan. Sorry for the slow reply. I'm from Texas,U.S.A. We're about 7 hours behind you. One more Question (true, 8, true, true) What do these represent? |
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| Robert Smith (Unknown) | 13.01.2011 21:53 |
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| I did as you said. I doubled it's size. But now when I'm at one edge of the map the sky at the opposite side is black. How do I fix this problem? |
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| Stefan Geiger - GIANTS Software | 14.01.2011 09:42 |
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| The parameters of Environment:new are the following: string skyI3DFilename, bool dayNightCycle, number startHour, bool allowRain, bool autoRain So you normally want to have the 4 booleans to have set to true, unless you want no day/night cycle or no rain. The problem with the sky is, that it is further away than then far clip distance of the camera. There is a way to fix this (honestly it is our mistake that we haven't done this in the game already ;) ). Open the skyShader.xml of your mod and add the following lines just after <CodeInjections> (line 15) just before <CodeInjection position="SAMPLERS">: <CodeInjection position="VS_END"> <![CDATA[ Out.position.z = Out.position.w; ]]> </CodeInjection> |
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| Robert Smith (Unknown) | 14.01.2011 17:11 |
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| Thank you Stefan. I can see the sky again! I'm trying to model a real farm here in Texas. It is a Township (36 sq. sections or 93,239,568 sq meters. At 4097x4097 I have 67,141,636 sq meters to work with. At 5000X5000 I would have enough room. The Editor will only except n^2 or n^2+1, but not larger than 4097x4097. Is there a way around this? |
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| Farmer Luke (Unknown) | 17.02.2012 06:56 |
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| Hi Stefan, i have tried it the way you describe it here. I can see the sky in editor without problems. Loading the map in the game yields to "jitter" on the sky! Do you have any idea what may cause this. I thought it could be the clip distance because when i am close to a border, the problem disappers. But enlarging the clip distance did not solve the problem. Best regards, Farmer Luke PS: I have also enlarged the sky textures to twice the size of the original. |
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| J Puddester (Unknown) | 17.07.2014 05:52 |
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| FOR FS2013: I've found an easy way to expand the sky to fit a larger map... STEP 1: copy the entire original 'sky' directory (it`s only about 4 MB) from the original install path into your mod zip STEP 2: modify the path to the sky in your samplemodmap.lua file... this example is modified: self.environment = Environment:new(Utils.getFilename("map/sky/sky_day_night.i3d", self.baseDirectory), true, 8, true, true); (that path is relative to your mod`s map01.id3 file) STEP 3: open the sky_day_night.i3d file in the editor, select the transformgroup and change the scale X, scale Y, and scale Z to all values of 2 (they are original values of 1) This technique was sufficient to increase the size of the`skybox` limits beyond the edge of my 16x 8192x8192 map... it works fine in my game even without changing the resolutions of any of the original files (though a detail buff would probably want to)... I have been using this map for 6 months and I haven`t seen any problems while using this modified sky... |
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