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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Raapys on July 25, 2005, 10:25:43 am

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: Raapys on July 25, 2005, 10:25:43 am

I'm making a mission for TBP, and I'm trying to get rid of the sun inside a nebula. Whatever I do the game just create a sun.
I did a search for it, but most of the results were very old, and I didn't really find the answer I was looking for, so any help would be appreciated.

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: Raven2001 on July 25, 2005, 10:55:08 am

I dunno, but try using a completely black sun file (.pcx)... you wont get rid of lightning and sun glare though...

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: Ransom on July 25, 2005, 11:22:26 am

I'm pretty sure if you edit the mission file in notepad and change the sun name to a kind of sun that doesn't exist (SunOobieDoobie for instance) you won't get a sun or any lighting.

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: brugger on July 25, 2005, 11:39:59 am

also you could make the sun as small as possible, in a nebula you shouldn't be able to see

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: Col. Fishguts on July 25, 2005, 12:39:11 pm

Have you tried using the "ambient" suns ? They have no (or a black) image, but I'm not sure if the game creates a new sun then.

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: Raapys on July 25, 2005, 05:17:50 pm

Ransom Arceihn's trick does the job, thanks.

Making it small doesn't take away the sun lightning and stuff, and with ambient suns the game still create a new one.

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: redsniper on July 25, 2005, 05:57:09 pm

wouldn't that make it... really, really dark?

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: Raapys on July 25, 2005, 06:20:32 pm

It does. As of right now, I put in a 'ambient_dark' sun, then another sun. Then I edited away the other sun. It's still a little darker than I would have wanted, but it's alot better than with no suns at all.

Any way to increase the ambient light?

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: Trivial Psychic on July 26, 2005, 01:35:16 am

There are sliders for amient light right below the sun selector in the more recent FRED builds.

Title: Nebula without suns
Post by: Raapys on July 26, 2005, 10:29:28 am

Yah, I've seen them. Unfortunately, they don't seem to do much. And they always reset when I load up the map.
Not sure what's the proper usage of them.