Hi,
i was wondering how one could apply a different background/sky_color to different views?
I need a black sky for one of my shaders, but on the other hand, i also need a pure white one for another shader...so i have a problem here, as i can't use sky_color.

View1 = black sky/background
View2 = white sky/background

Any ideas?

if(render_view == View1) {vec_set(sky_color,vector(0,0,0))};
if(render_view == View2) {vec_set(sky_color,vector(255,255,255))};

or use you the different views simultaneous?

There is probably a much better way of "getting" the colors than this,
but the " view.dwcolor = " MAY enable you to set the different colors.

jane:
I already tried that method, but it's VERY unflexible and makes life much harder for me. Each time i need another background color i would have to rewrite code all over the place. I also would have to set the ENABLE_VIEW flag for each material, which i absolutely do not want.
Yes, i render both views (i actually have more) at the same time...so this really is unflexible.

EvilSOB:
That's exactly what i was looking for. A simple and easy method to change the background without rewriting all my code. Unfortunally it doesn't work Would have been to easy...

Any more ideas?

its an option to use the screen_color(default:0 -> black) to View1 and sky_color to View2

or target1,target2,target3 with COLOR1,COLOR2,COLOR3
to change the bmap_createblack color?

We used something like that for our splittscreen game: just create a view-entity (skycube etc.) and asign the client_id of the ent to the view... this works just fine!

They just have implemented background colors in beta a week ago:


It seems Conitec needed different background colors for the new PSSM script, its always good when they do such scripts because then they notice whats missing.