new day/night-change test-level

I recently made a test-level that shows the use of background-and fogcolor fadings to achieve a decent day-to-night change. It also includes dynamic sun/moon and a lensflare effect and...a nice multitexture-terrain-shader.
The here shown method is suited for large outdoor levels that need a close clipping for higher fps count.

Of course there are many things to improove and I would be happy to hear from you how! As you know, I'm only able to do some kind of pseudo-scripting...ready for you to rework and post here

Credits go to Thorsten Kunze (terrainshader), Alexander Esslinger (lighting in terrainshader), Psionic (dwarf-model) and David Lancaster (modified template6 lensflare-script and flare pictures).

Note: Needs at least version 6.4... because of chunked terrain.

DOWNLOAD HERE (8 mb!)

thats simply amazing...
fine thing is that this code can easily be changed...
and fitted...

I get an error loading the hmp

Edit: oops din't read it was for 6.4. heh now it work. Very good job

Wow!

ive tested the code, and it works with 6.3 aswell if you remove the terrain line and code a little around it. ill use that in my game, i dont use terrain but it works anyway...

Nice work Loopix, that's really
a great job you did there.
I'll surely use this in my project

Thxn

Frazzle

I'm glad you like it Yes...my coding should be very easy to understand and adapt to your own needs...actualy anything that escapes my brain can't be hard to understand

Looks great from the screenshots, but can a 6.4 user publish this for us non-6.4 users so we can see the full glory?

WoW Loopix, this is a great contribution, many thanks.

It can be used in a lot of ways.

A bug i noticed is when you look at the sun directly it kind of flickers.

NEVER look at the sun without wearing sunglases ...no honestly, I don't know how to fix this. Glory to the one who will do it

Thank you, Loopix. Your work is good as well. And allways usefull

wooow... very niiiccceee.
thanks for the very beautiful contribut

gg Nicolas

neat sun =)

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!

is there any way some one could compile thsi for me? I dont have 3dgs any more and would really like to see this ...
screen shots look great though.

Ok...here is a compiled version: DOWNLOAD COMPILED VERSION

wow that was amazing! great work!

Really fantastic!
Thanks to this, because I'm so poor in making skys,day,night.

Regards,
beegee

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Thanks for making a compiled demo!

Just had a look into it! Looks wonderful!

One suggestion, when you place a sky entity like the moon additionally for the sun as well, then the sun's appearence and disappearance would be less suddenly.

The fps is very low. I have heard that limiting the framerate can help. For instance:

fps_max = 30;
fps_lock = on;

I didn't test it myself, yet.

Thank you all for the nice words

@Pappenheimer: Very good suggestion...I will add that for sure. Thanks! The level runs with 70-120 fps on my machine (x800)...what are your specs???

And now a little advertising for A6 (hoping that JCL will notice and give me the pro-upgrade for free ) : I'm ever again suprised about the nice effects that can be done with A6...even by an absolute c-script analphabet

Sorry, fogot to mention that:

X300 SE.

Wow... This is some nice work.

Nice to see your still working on your day/night sky system
I do have to agree with Pappenheimer, it has a frame rate issue.
movement of entities and transtions have noticable 'jerking'

with a background running thing like a sky system it needs to have as little impact on performace as possible.

hi, that's a great demo but i can't get it to compile as well. i'm using 6.4 commercial. the level builder kept complaining that the "W066: surfaces are too big to be shaded..." and it takes forever to compile...

which surfaces? i even tried replacing the terrain with a simpler model but the same error still pops out.

can anyone help? thanks in advance.

Loopix posted a compiled version in this thread as well!

i'd like to build the level and test out the scripts, not so much just to run the demo.

has anyone come across the same problem or successfully built the level?

hi, i manage to build the entire level finally but strangely the frame rate crawls like 0.00000x fps.

i'm using a GF 68xx on a 2Ghz centrino with 1.5GB ram. most things run well on my notebook...

is there anything i can do to speed up this compile?

I'm sorry...it must be bad scripting from my part (I'm just not able to do proper scripting ) I would also love to see someone fixing my code and post it here...so that it will run smoth.