I'm using a good deal of template code. Among that code is display00.wdl.

I have some environments/levels that have solid color backgrounds and different interiors/levels that I want to have no background at all. This is for reasons of optimization. Removing the background helps a bit on interiors. (Fellow noobs, you'll no it's gone if you adjust the sky_color settings and you create a window in your interior and see an odd motion blur-like render effect. (The trick is to have no windows/views of the backgroiund.)
In display change skycolor to all 0s.
sky_color.red = 0;
sky_color.green = 0;
sky_color.blue = 0;


The problem is that display settings of the first level get carried over to other levels.

Help is appreciated.

set the sky color to something else when you load the new level.....

Thanks Michael.

"The problem is that display settings of the first level get carried over to other levels."

That is, I was doing exactly what you wrote already, but it isn't working.
I'm setting sky_color from a certain rgb (on the first level) to nothing (on a subsequent level).

If I load the no background level by itself without first loading the level with a solid sky color the sky color settings get set properly. Of course this isn't a solution when level switching is going on...


This appears true of other display settings as well, i.e. clip range. I need clip closer for some levels for optimization.

(Fellow noobs adjusting your clip and your background can greatly affect frame rate.)

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

are you setting the new sky color after or before loading the new level? (e.g. before you invoke the level_load command)

Ok, thnks Michael. Before I was duplicating the display wdl and attempting to include a unique version of "display00.wdl" for each level by using "include" calling the modified nobackgrounddispaly00.wdl in each level's first script-- each level other than 2(the one that needs a solid sky). Doesn't work.

After your last response, I dusted off the unused portion of my artist brain and I took a look at "levels00.wdl" searching for the exit function. I found it, and inserted the sky_color to 0 settings... worked! but for one problem-- returning to the hub world (level2) which needs a solid sky, now loads first time to solid but of course on return from another level no background (not what I need) (because I've altered the exit function to do so).

The super complex solution algorithm that I created ... "if level2 don't do that"...

(I'm very new to programming). (level_num is a var pre setup in the template by its author. I am attempting to only give a solid sky on levle 2.
I'm getting several "parameter unknown errors" with my code below.
"parameter unknown-- keyword else bad parameter in {}
parameter unknown-- sky_color.red bad parameter in {}
...


The function Levels00_Exit_Pt_Event() is part of the template-- everything that follows is my addition and the rest is not included in my post.

My question now is what is wrong with this code:

function Levels00_Exit_Pt_Event()
{

if (level_num == 2)
{
// make a red one to test
sky_color.red = 100;
sky_color.green = 0;
sky_color.blue = 0;
} else // turn it off for optimization
{ sky_color.red=0;
sky_color.green = 0;
sky_color.blue = 0;
}
....

Thanks.

Still need help on this if anyone can do so.

I thought I had it taken care of using some work arounds-- but not really-- need to change background sky color between levels.

Thnx.