Always Night/Dark in an Exterior Area

[Yawgnor]

I'm creating a cavern using an exterior area. How do I set the lighting to always dark? Or night?

[Moridin]

1. Go to Area Properties
2. Go to Environment
3. Uncheck directional light(keep this checked while building as it can get hard to see). You can also uncheck the day/night cycle(I think) if you wish.
4. Now, to edit the ceiling and the surroundings you would go to appearance and extend the day/night cycle menu. There are 8 parts to the Day/night cycle. All the editing you need for ambient surroundings is in there.

[7threalm]

and if you can figure out a way to get rid of stars let me know lol

[Yawgnor]

and if you can figure out a way to get rid of stars let me know lol

This seems to work for the stars, at least it did for me (that's if it's not just a fluke and I got rid of them on accident :/ )...

I recall that you have to unpress the 'sky' button when the area is open and save it like that. If memory serves that button is actually a toggle for the area, not just a toolset setting.

Moridin, your directions did work for the light level, except that it also makes the water I happen to have in the same area invisible. Need directional light to see water, it seems, unless I'm missing something.

Is there no way to get rid of the day/night cycle, and have it permanently night?

[7threalm]

just change all the files to whatever night level you want, day = night, noon= night, etc.

stars come out at midnight i think, or someother timestamp

[Yawgnor]

just change all the files to whatever night level you want, day = night, noon= night, etc.

I'm not trying to be dense, but I'm not seeing where these settings are. This is what I have (one with sunrise open, and one with nighttime), what exactly do you adjust, and exactly what do you change it to? Please, explain it to me as though you think I'm an idiot, because I'm starting to feel like one.

[Duster47]

You would think un-clicking Day/Night Cycle (false) and clicking Is Always Night (true) would do it. But it did not work for me. Go figure...

Otherwise, I believe you will need to do what 7threalm said; change all 8 stages to the same thing then adjust the different color options (e.g. SkyHorizon, SkyZenith, etc.) to all be the same. I never tried this myself so I am uncertain it would work. The only UD areas I ever looked at TS-side were cave tiles.

How about another approach? Use cave tiles, or other appropriate tiles but with the ceiling turned off? Then the area around the edges will be pitch black. Break up the silhouette with boulders and other placeables set to EOs.

[LISA100595]

Or just copy and paste all the "night" values of #4 to the "Default" one #7. Then keep day / night cycle false and always night true.

[7threalm]

now i remember the only way to block out the stars is to raise the exterior tiles around the edges of the map so that they cannot be looked over. That is how sshmath is designed. I attempted it once on a bigger map but it is hard to do,

[Yawgnor]

\o/ Hotdamn!

Your idea, Lisa, was the ticket. It worked perfectly. As for the skydome, I used fx_skydome_cave that I found somewhere forgotten a while ago. I must have had this project in mind back then; it's just a blank black sky.

If you're curious, here's the Cavern, plus the needed haks.

[LISA100595]

Glad I could help

[Moridin]

Moridin, your directions did work for the light level, except that it also makes the water I happen to have in the same area invisible. Need directional light to see water, it seems, unless I'm missing something.

Is there no way to get rid of the day/night cycle, and have it permanently night?

Oh, didn't think about water, ya, my way wouldn't work with water as it requires directional light.

[LISA100595]

You can leave directional light on with difusing the colors or I think a placeable light will suffice over the water .. same diffuse the colors... experiment.

[Yawgnor]

It all worked, even the water.