Restoring the pre-Seasons sky
kazebird:
I would have posted this in the original thread, but Mr. Necromancer was too intimidating to bring back the thread.
After several weeks of intense research, I decided to start asking modders for their input on why seasons made the skies cloudless, and bland. First I asked Numenor, and within the hour he responded with this:
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I always knew about that sort of "dome" that completely surrounds the lot, and works like a screen where the sky is projected.
The differences in the sky colour were introduced with Seasons, and I think that maybe Maxis didn't find the perfect balance between the various overlays (background, clouds, stars) and the result is not perfect.
At the present time I have no time to investigate more the problem, but probably there are Material Definitions (associated to the textures for sky and clouds) that can possibly be tweaked in order to make them less transparent.
Bye
Numenor
After Googling material definitions, and coming up with nothing but definitions of the word material, I asked him what they were. Today he responded:
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We often use the acronym TXMT for the Material Definitions. It defines what texture should be applied to a mesh and how (should the texture be bright? transparent? reflective?...).
If you have found the "wall", then you should be able to find the textures and TXMT associated to it, using the "Finder" plugin of SimPE: select the Finder tab, select "NameMap search" in the Find selector and type in the Match field the first part of the name of the "wall" you have found.
You can also search for "sky", "cloud" etc., and possibly discover the resources you are looking for.
Numenor
Now if I am not mistaken this means that by using SimPE, we may be able to fix the clouds, and restore the star's radius in the sky, if we can find the right file.
This is where the problem comes in. I haven't used SimPE since BV, when I accidentally corrupted my neighborhood trying to remove Bella Goth's death token. I really don't want that to happen again. So if anyone reading this is good enough with SimPE to find the file, edit it, and post the fix, I would greatly appreciate it.
For those unfamiliar with the probem, look below:
Before Seasons:
After Seasons:
Before Seasons:
After Seasons:
As you can see the clouds are gone, and the stars have receded.
toad:
If you REALLY want some clouds in the sky, go and download this buyable sky from MTS2. There's also a recolour of it on GoS.
Otherwise, I don't think you're going to get the sky back without uninstalling Seasons, at the very least.
Mizz Rose Bud:
Quote from: TashaFaun on 2009 April 17, 18:22:09
I'm thinking you are the only one obsessing about this, parrot.
No, we are at least two ... the sky after Seasons are plain boring.
Strangel:
Three.
Bonzodog:
Four. I want my moons back, dammit!
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