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Meesa went to change the sky in my mod. I was using AQT's *awesome* Saleucami sky on the Mos Eisley skydome. I did everything right, I double-checked. Ingame the sky is just...black. Yaps, just black. Truthfully it looks like a piece of crap. Manual clean did NUTTIN!

Help?
TIA (my new abbreviation, Thanks in Advance)

YTGTangerine wrote:I did everything right, I double-checked.

What is interesting is that every time someone posts "I did everything right, but I still have a problem," they invariably did not do everything right (and in fact if you did, there is nothing we can help you with). However, we can help you figure out whatever mistake you might have overlooked, but we will need to see your sky file for starters.

Hi!
You must make sure your TGA is type 2. To do this you open Gimp and saves as TGA without RLE compression.

Maveritchell wrote:

YTGTangerine wrote:I did everything right, I double-checked.

What is interesting is that every time someone posts "I did everything right, but I still have a problem," they invariably did not do everything right (and in fact if you did, there is nothing we can help you with). However, we can help you figure out whatever mistake you might have overlooked, but we will need to see your sky file for starters.

What I ment is I did everything to change the sky.

@jvsw-Done that.

Error log? Sky file?

Fiodis wrote:Sky file?

would really help. along with the names of AQT's skydome mesh (if its not just a texture that he made that overrides something). basically to make it work, you have to have the mesh with the corresponding tex. referenced. or if you know about lighting you coulda messed it up to be all black but i doubt that's what your trying to describe here.

I can't think of any circumstance in which lighting results in a clean, uniformly black sky.

Fiodis wrote:I can't think of any circumstance in which lighting results in a clean, uniformly black sky.

good point, i meant to just say black overall as an all black lighting just makes everything black.

Error Log! Completely forgot bout that! Here it is.

ive never seen this one before..
Message Severity: 2
.\Source\SkyManager.cpp(122)
Skyfile FarSceneRange is in old format
i guess go into your skyfile and check the farscene range, see if theres anything weird there. by default i believe it's in the hundreds.

obiboba3po wrote:ive never seen this one before..
Message Severity: 2
.\Source\SkyManager.cpp(122)
Skyfile FarSceneRange is in old format
i guess go into your skyfile and check the farscene range, see if theres anything weird there. by default i believe it's in the hundreds.

That is not abnormal.

And post your .sky file, dagnabbit, you've ignored several people that have told you to do so, starting with the very first response.

Maveritchell wrote:

obiboba3po wrote:ive never seen this one before..
Message Severity: 2
.\Source\SkyManager.cpp(122)
Skyfile FarSceneRange is in old format
i guess go into your skyfile and check the farscene range, see if theres anything weird there. by default i believe it's in the hundreds.

That is not abnormal.

And post your .sky file, dagnabbit, you've ignored several people that have told you to do so, starting with the very first response.

Sorry. Here it is.

YTGTangerine wrote:

Maveritchell wrote:

obiboba3po wrote:ive never seen this one before..
Message Severity: 2
.\Source\SkyManager.cpp(122)
Skyfile FarSceneRange is in old format
i guess go into your skyfile and check the farscene range, see if theres anything weird there. by default i believe it's in the hundreds.

That is not abnormal.

And post your .sky file, dagnabbit, you've ignored several people that have told you to do so, starting with the very first response.

Sorry. Here it is.

Hidden/Spoiler:

[code]SkyInfo()
{
Enable(1);

PS2()
{
NearSceneRange(0.100000, 70.000000, 100.000000);
NearSplitScreenRange(0.100000, 50.000000, 60.000000);
FarSceneRange(3000.000000);
}
PC()
{
NearSceneRange(100.0, 150.0, 150.0, 200.0);
FarSceneRange(200.000000, 1000.0);
}
XBOX()
{
NearSceneRange(0.200000, 90.000000, 130.000000);
NearSplitScreenRange(0.200000, 70.000000, 100.000000);
FarSceneRange(3000.000000);
}
}

DomeInfo()
{
Texture("SKY_Tatooine2.tga");
Angle(-90.000000);
Ambient(255.000000, 255.000000, 255.000000);
Filter(1);
Threshold(150);
Intensity(50);
TerrainColorDarkening();

Softness(1);
SoftnessParam(60);

XBOX()
{
TerrainBumpTexture("tat2_bump", 1.0);
}
PC()
{
TerrainBumpTexture("tat2_bump", 1.0);
}

DomeModel()
{
Geometry("tat2_sky_dome");
}

LowResTerrain()
{
Texture("tat2");
PatchResolution(4);
MaxDistance(3000);
}

}

SkyObject()
{
Geometry("rep_fly_assault_DOME");
NumObjects(2);
Height(350, 500);
VelocityZ(30, 50);
Distance(2500);
InDirectionFactor(2.5);
}

SkyObject()
{
Geometry("cis_fly_fedlander_DOME");
NumObjects(2);
Height(350, 500);
VelocityZ(30, 50);
Distance(2500);
InDirectionFactor(2.5);
}

SkyObject()
{
Geometry("all_fly_moncalamari_DOME");
NumObjects(2);
Height(350, 500);
VelocityZ(30, 50);
Distance(2500);
InDirectionFactor(2.5);
}

SkyObject()
{
Geometry("imp_fly_destroyer_DOME");
NumObjects(2);
Height(350, 500);
VelocityZ(30, 50);
Distance(2500);
InDirectionFactor(2.5);
}
[/code]

And what is your sky texture called, and what texture does your dome mesh call for inside the .msh file?

Hm. The texture called for has SKY capitalized, but my texture doesn't. Is it case-sensitive?

YTGTangerine wrote:Hm. The texture called for has SKY capitalized, but my texture doesn't. Is it case-sensitive?

No. Again:

And what is your sky texture called, and what texture does your dome mesh call for inside the .msh file?

Maveritchell wrote:

YTGTangerine wrote:Hm. The texture called for has SKY capitalized, but my texture doesn't. Is it case-sensitive?

No. Again:

And what is your sky texture called, and what texture does your dome mesh call for inside the .msh file?

Called for: SKY_Tatooine2.tga
AQT's: sky_tatooine2.tga

Use this as your .sky file and tell us what happens:

what mav has should work.

obiboba3po wrote:to make it work, you have to have the mesh with the corresponding tex. referenced.

Yep, that worked! Thanks Mav, and sorry for not paying attention to what was being asked of me.