Sky Mapping
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A rotating skybox could be done in Unreal Engine 1 by setting the Physics of the SkyZoneInfo to PHYS_Rotating, and also setting the RotationRate. Those options are not available in Unreal Engine 2 I think, so I'm not sure if it is as easy as how it was done in UE1. Look in maps with a rotating skybox (CTF-FaceClassic comes to mind) to see how it was done there.
It done by attching the Satic mesh in your skybox to a mover,
You may also set a movement tag to your mesh and it will rotate so as well
You may also set a movement tag to your mesh and it will rotate so as well
Real Moving sunlight would utterly destroy the frame rate (dynamic lighting on every surface etc). Though you can always make a sphere with one half with a night sky and one half with a day sky and rotate it around slowly to give the illusion of rising sun.
Again look at the skybox in FaceClassic.
Again look at the skybox in FaceClassic.
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I'm not sure about this, but what if I started the map with a specific setting, for example, start the map with the sun at 4pm, and it will put the sunlight there, but the sunlight won't move? I'll create a sphere, with half of it being daytime, and the other half being nighttime?
By the way, where do I get FaceClassic?
Thanks for the help guys!
By the way, where do I get FaceClassic?
Thanks for the help guys!
Like i said, moving sunlight just wont work...
Faceclassic comes standard with UT2004, check you maps folder.
Faceclassic comes standard with UT2004, check you maps folder.
You can probably trigger lights in the skybox on and off, but dynamic lights in 2k4 don't act the same way they do in ut99 
... they don't make any shadows. How about two sky zones - one for day and one for night?
Angel Mapper's tutorial: http://angelmapper.com/tutorials/multipleskies.htm
... they don't make any shadows. How about two sky zones - one for day and one for night? Angel Mapper's tutorial: http://angelmapper.com/tutorials/multipleskies.htm
What if I start the map with an argument from the command-line, and tell it to display a sun at a specific time of the day, for example, 4pm, and programmatically set the skybox to be at a defined place? That way, the skybox doesn't have to rotate while the map is running, and I still get to define whether I want to play the map during the daytime or the nighttime...