Hello everyone,
Recently, I've been getting back into Unreal again and I'm really loving it. The game has an atmosphere I not often experience anymore in modern games.
About a week or two ago I wanted to try out the editor. I have Unreal and UT installed from the Anthology boxset and after comparing the editors from both games I picked Unreal Editor 2.0 from UT because it felt more stable to work with.
I'm working on a small map just for fun, and I've added a few Skaarj in it. Because the map is a bit dark I wanted to have the same kind of glowing Skaarj seen in the Unreal singleplayermap "ExtremeDark", the level after you destroyed the power generator.
I've managed to give the Skaarj a green or blue firetexture, set them to "Bunlit" and "Bmeshenviromap", made them transparent/modulated, added colored lightning on them and a light radius. It works very well and it looks great, especially the green IMHO. But I noticed that some Skaarj in "ExtremeDark" also have a layer of colored (green or blue) fog around them.
I've used the settings under "Lightning" (part of the Actor Properties) and set them to "VolumeBrightness" 6 "VolumeFog" 0 (The same setting as in "ExtremeDark") and "VolumeRadius"" 5. But it doesn't work. Have I overlooked something?
I did found out that when placing a new Skaarj in "ExtremeDark" and entering those abovementioned settings that the fog does appear, but it doesn't seem to work in other levels.
What am I doing wrong? Is there a main setting that must be activated first before I can use settings like "VolumeBrightness"? The glowing Skaarj already looks very nice without the fog but if it is possible I would love to add that feature on them.
My sincere thanks to everyone who can help me with this.
JH24
Recently, I've been getting back into Unreal again and I'm really loving it. The game has an atmosphere I not often experience anymore in modern games.
About a week or two ago I wanted to try out the editor. I have Unreal and UT installed from the Anthology boxset and after comparing the editors from both games I picked Unreal Editor 2.0 from UT because it felt more stable to work with.
I'm working on a small map just for fun, and I've added a few Skaarj in it. Because the map is a bit dark I wanted to have the same kind of glowing Skaarj seen in the Unreal singleplayermap "ExtremeDark", the level after you destroyed the power generator.
I've managed to give the Skaarj a green or blue firetexture, set them to "Bunlit" and "Bmeshenviromap", made them transparent/modulated, added colored lightning on them and a light radius. It works very well and it looks great, especially the green IMHO. But I noticed that some Skaarj in "ExtremeDark" also have a layer of colored (green or blue) fog around them.
I've used the settings under "Lightning" (part of the Actor Properties) and set them to "VolumeBrightness" 6 "VolumeFog" 0 (The same setting as in "ExtremeDark") and "VolumeRadius"" 5. But it doesn't work. Have I overlooked something?
I did found out that when placing a new Skaarj in "ExtremeDark" and entering those abovementioned settings that the fog does appear, but it doesn't seem to work in other levels.
What am I doing wrong? Is there a main setting that must be activated first before I can use settings like "VolumeBrightness"? The glowing Skaarj already looks very nice without the fog but if it is possible I would love to add that feature on them.
My sincere thanks to everyone who can help me with this.
JH24
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