Day maps to night maps

[xstax981]

I was modding away, and using some tutorials from http://www.bfeditor.org managed to get a night map to work, without SF (but of course you can't have night-goggles and the like).

First of all, this stuff is all exe code, and leftover unused vanilla BF2 skies.

You can choose to make it pitch black so you need night vision, or you can make it so you can just play during the night.

First off, everything that you need takes place in the Sky.con file of any map. Just open a map's server.zip file.

(For sake of consistency, I'm using Karkand as an example)

Find this code:

Skydome.skyTemplate skydome
Skydome.cloudTemplate cloudlayer
Skydome.hasCloudLayer 0
Skydome.hasCloudLayer2 0
Skydome.scrolldirection 0/0
Skydome.scrolldirection2 0/0
Skydome.cloudTexture common\textures\cloud\Cloud03
Skydome.cloudTexture2 
Skydome.skyTexture common\textures\sky\karkand_cloudy
Skydome.domeRotation 60
Skydome.fadeCloudsDistances 900/500
Skydome.cloudLerpFactors 0.5/0.5
Skydome.flareTexture common\textures\sunflare\Sunglow_32bit_v2
Skydome.flareDirection 0.00/0.00/0.00

Change it to this:

Skydome.skyTemplate skydome
Skydome.cloudTemplate cloudlayer
Skydome.hasCloudLayer 1
Skydome.hasCloudLayer2 1
Skydome.scrolldirection -0.01/-0.002
Skydome.scrolldirection2 -0.015/0.005
Skydome.cloudTexture common\textures\cloud\Cloud10
Skydome.cloudTexture2 common\textures\cloud\Cloud10
Skydome.skyTexture common\textures\sky\skyNight01
Skydome.domeRotation 180
Skydome.fadeCloudsDistances 500/800
Skydome.cloudLerpFactors 0.4/0.3
rem Skydome.flareTexture common\textures\sunflare\Sunglow_32bit
rem Skydome.flareFadeMul 0.5
rem Skydome.flareDirection -0.74/0.24/-0.62

The sunglow part is rem'd because if it isn't, you'll get an annoying sunglow which can ruin the map.

Above it, find:

Lightmanager.init
Lightmanager.skycolor 0.80/0.75/0.65
Lightmanager.ambientcolor 0.709804/0.666667/0.584314
Lightmanager.sunColor 0.997647/0.985098/0.96
Lightmanager.sunSpecColor 0.984314/0.913726/0.784314
if v_arg1 == BF2Editor
LightSettings.TerrainSunColor 0.75/0.71/0.57
LightSettings.TerrainSkyColor 0.73/0.64/0.33
else
terrain.sunColor 0.75/0.71/0.57
terrain.GIColor 0.73/0.64/0.33
endIf
Lightmanager.staticSunColor 0.80/0.74/0.58
Lightmanager.staticSpecularColor 0.65/0.60/0.52
Lightmanager.staticSkyColor 0.53/0.45/0.28
Lightmanager.singlePointColor 0.00/0.00/0.00
Lightmanager.sunDirection -0.260104/-0.80032/-0.540216
Lightmanager.enableSun 1
Lightmanager.effectSunColor 0.98/0.91/0.78
Lightmanager.effectShadowColor 0.29/0.26/0.20
Lightmanager.defaultEffectLightAffectionFactor 1
Lightmanager.hemilerpbias 0.25
hemiMapManager.setBaseHemiMap Levels/Strike_at_Karkand/groundhemi 0.000000/0.000000/0.000000 2048.000000 500.000000
Lightmanager.treeAmbientColor 0.58/0.45/0.27
Lightmanager.treeSunColor 0.86/0.67/0.49
Lightmanager.treeSkyColor 0.93/0.89/0.79

Change it to:

Lightmanager.init
Lightmanager.skycolor 0.4/0.5/0.68
Lightmanager.ambientcolor 0.609804/0.617647/0.656863
Lightmanager.sunColor 0.6/0.67/0.75
Lightmanager.sunSpecColor 0.334118/0.338431/0.319608
if v_arg1 == BF2Editor
LightSettings.TerrainSunColor 0.5/0.52/0.73
LightSettings.TerrainSkyColor 0.35/0.42/0.60
LightmapSettings.waterSunIntensity 0.8
else
terrain.sunColor 0.4/0.42/0.57
terrain.GIColor 0.35/0.41/0.55
terrain.waterSunIntensity 0.8
endIf
Lightmanager.staticSunColor 0.37/0.39/0.42
Lightmanager.staticSpecularColor 0.44/0.41/0.44
Lightmanager.staticSkyColor 0.35/0.45/0.67
Lightmanager.singlePointColor 0.95/0.94/0.79
Lightmanager.sunDirection 0.722505/-0.348215/0.597271
Lightmanager.enableSun 1
Lightmanager.effectSunColor 0.43/0.42/0.41
Lightmanager.effectShadowColor 0.36/0.38/0.38
Lightmanager.defaultEffectLightAffectionFactor 1
Lightmanager.hemilerpbias 1
hemiMapManager.setBaseHemiMap Levels/Midnight_Sun/groundhemi 0.000000/0.000000/0.000000 2048.000000 300.000000
Lightmanager.treeAmbientColor 0.5/0.55/0.75
Lightmanager.treeSunColor 0.5/0.52/0.9
Lightmanager.treeSkyColor 0.43/0.49/0.48

I haven't done this in awhile, so if this is wrong, tell me and I'll amend it.

If you want to make it more like SF skies, see this post on BFEditor.org

[scrogathon]

Re: Day maps to night maps

hey thanks for this I got it to work:)