im making a tatooine map but so far even after changing the ambient colors from grey to a very whitish yellow, my map is still looking grey and foggy like yavin any ideas on how to make it more bright and yellowish instead of grey? or atleast help the map look like theres acctually burning suns over head

heres some pics of the map color situation so far, and yes i know i havent change the default sky yet, but im working on it as we speak .

In ZE lighting on the right hand side change the values for the top and bottom colors to something yellowish. You may or may not need to add a directional light but that is really for if you want the illusion of the sun in the sky and casting shadows etc.

i did that... but how would i add the sun effect? what would i type into the directional light to acheive this?

also i think i found my first problem out... i 4got to remove the fog.... =P

You must on the left side Place a directional light, position it in the sky where you get the effect you want or approximate location of the sun. Call the new light Sun then on the left side enter Sun into the Directional Light 1 box. Have a look at Yavin1 as an example.

also not sure if you're asking this or not but you can add a physical sun to your map by editing the .sky file i believe the section is called "SunInfo" or something along those lines take a look at yavin's .sky file. Doing that will place a bright colored sort of sun in your map but I don't think it will cast any lights in order to do that you need to do what frag said above with directionals

For what YaNkFaN was talking about have a look at TAT2 world .fx file it has the sun flares in there.

i got my map bright and shining like i was hoping =D thanks guys

What? No bright and shiny pictures

Glad to hear you got it working the way you wanted.

ull see the pics soon enough =P just wait for it in the wip forums should be there in about id say mabytoday or tommorow at least...