ive got a skydome and my level but i cant seem to get a realistic night sky.
i want to have the moon slightly illuminating the level but i also want a nice dark blue sky with stars and a few clouds.
and how can i attach a small corona to the moon. i just want the moon to have a slight glow.
thanks
Realistic Night sky?
I'm a rookie so this may not work. Looks like scripting will be your friend here.
On your SkyDome:
You might change the SetSkyTexture to a .bmp that gives you the kind of sky you want.
Set the DisableSun flag to true.
Then create a Sun entity in your level and try 0 0 255 for the Color and Light to 750, the RF Manual says this simulates strong moonlight.
As for a moon with corona, you might create a pawn entity and create a an animated moon with phases in Blender or Maya to tie to that entity. Then write a script for the moon to change the phases and possibly script points to move the moon across the sky.
Not sure how it would work with shadows.
EDIT: Here is a stars texture I created, it's kinda busy though.
On your SkyDome:
You might change the SetSkyTexture to a .bmp that gives you the kind of sky you want.
Set the DisableSun flag to true.
Then create a Sun entity in your level and try 0 0 255 for the Color and Light to 750, the RF Manual says this simulates strong moonlight.
As for a moon with corona, you might create a pawn entity and create a an animated moon with phases in Blender or Maya to tie to that entity. Then write a script for the moon to change the phases and possibly script points to move the moon across the sky.
Not sure how it would work with shadows.
EDIT: Here is a stars texture I created, it's kinda busy though.
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i agree your texture is a bit busy, thats part of the problem, the second part is that the stars stand out and have sharp outlines, if you used a soften tool and blured the image a little i think it would look alot better, anyway i had an open source programe that positions stars and known planets in a 3d environment and from this i took a printscreen it looks exelent as a texture i would imagine you just need to re-size it.
*GD*
Oh god i miss south africa... 
That sky is just like the endless black bush sky...
great texture btw.
That sky is just like the endless black bush sky...great texture btw.
My Deviant Art - http://black-crusader.deviantart.com
yep and its free to use, i dont belive there is any copy right issues as its just a printscreen but if you want to make sure the web site for the programme can be found here.
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
*GD*
Scott, you kick butt. That texture was a throw-together for a level experiment based on an outer-space battle. I was tinkering around with a sphere-shaped level (kept crashing, comp can't handle spheres that are nearly 4000 texels) and made that texture in about 2 minutes in GIMP. I'll take that screenshot and see if I can't add some red and blue stars to it. Being a space level, I need the colored stars and an Earth-based image tends to filter these colors because of our atmosphere.
#11. Thou Shalt Not Use Cut Brushes.