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Hi,
Im using dark clouds in a project and would like to be able to reduce visibility when it is night time, but still have the sky visible.

I want to use the fog command to achieve this however I dont know how to exclude the dark clouds sky with the command,

does anyone know?

also does anyone know what sort of lighting dark clouds uses?

Ive tried setting my models and matrix light flags and ambient flags to 1



when the light fades in the sky the objects are still just as visible and even if i manually change the ambient light level, it darkens the textures on the models, which is good, but the matrix remains unchanged. what am I doing wrong there?

thankyou
kezzla

DarkClouds doesn't actually project any light. It just creates a texture for the backdrop. You have to calculate where the sunlight should be coming from yourself, and then place a light there (or pass that value to your shaders as the light position.)

What I've done is calculate an orbit for the light along the same axis as the sun position in DarkClouds. (the x axis in my case) Make the player's position the center of the orbit so it lines up with the sun from DarkClouds. The sunrise and sunset in DC are at 6 AM and 6 PM respectively. So I reduce the light level by adjusting the light color as the sun lowers. At the same time I gradually lower the ambient light to a level that will make everything reasonably dark without making it impossible to see. Then do the opposite for sunrise.

Also, don't forget to SET OBJECT LIGHT Obj, 1 so your objects will react to the light. SET OBJECT NORMALS Obj can also help if you have any trouble getting an object to react properly to light.