ATTN: Moviemakers! Sky.con!!!!!

[|D|-Jaws]

I know many of us are always looking for something to give their movie a unique look. After having dabbled in custom map making, I'm finding that you can achieve great new results by simply editing sky.con found in your server.zip file. Here is an example of what I did to Karkand to get a more relaistic and unique look.

http://teamdissidents.com/Gallery/albums/The-Dissidents-BF2-2006/screen046.jpg

http://teamdissidents.com/Gallery/albums/The-Dissidents-BF2-2006/screen044.jpg

http://teamdissidents.com/Gallery/albums/The-Dissidents-BF2-2006/screen047.jpg

[wolfi]

Welcome to the world of modding ;)
Personally, I'd rather play karkand with this settings..

[Keyelite]

Wow, thats really interesting.. I actually wouldnt mind playing karkand like that


I will keep that in mind for future projects.. good find!

[dBs]

Id be willing to play karkand more often with it like that. For now its Sharaqi for me =D

[imported_Mike]

I like that very much, its different.

[wolfi]

If you change it too much, you will have to re-render the lightmaps.
This will take 20-60 hours, depending on your hardware and render settings...
But if you do it correctly it turns out very nice, look what it looks like with the sky settings of the EF map "great wall":

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6185/designmorgen1pn.jpg

[[C22] yrethguad]

That looks awesome! (original post)

lol set it to Operation Harvest sky.

[Sir. XaliaS]

This is great!
Are you limited to just the fog or can you change the whole sky box too?

[|D|-Jaws]

You can change any parameter.;)

[imported_Homer99]

I love how the light and the sky can change the look of the map I would like to see a movie filmed in that!

[wolfi]

This is great!
Are you limited to just the fog or can you change the whole sky box too?
You can change fog, the whole lightning (how statics, trees, terrain and such are colored), water, envmaps, view distance, ... You even can add a thunderstorm with dynamic lightnings and sound :eek:

[Krypp596]

i <3 that setting :
http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76527&highlight=uber+viewdistance
:)

[wolfi]

Hmm I dont like it when theres no fog. It looks too dark, too much contrast :p

[Jackass]

You just transformed Karkand to the abandomed city, brilliant!

[Sir. Xios]

You said that you just alter the file in the "server.zip" file.
This means it can be a server side modification i take it?

[wolfi]

I dont think so, the clients will be kicked for modified content :(

[Sir. Xios]

hmm, I will ask Elxx to try any way. :D

[Sir. AAK625]

Imagine giving Dalian Plant the Karkand look...

Nice find.

[|D|-Jaws]

Unfortunately. no. the only file that can be modified for server sid eonly tweaks is gameplayobjects.con. That is how I created our infantry only server...I remmed out all the armor and helis.;)

[Sir. Slug]

I like that very much, its different.

/Agreed... I like it when people make the older maps different... makes it more interesting:)

And that is actually quite realistic... cos it would really be that hazy/smoky with burning buildings, etc.

Nice one!