Need help with lighting

[Spiderbot01]

I'm making an outdoor assault map for the DXAG, now generally I make my maps night time ones but I thought that wouldn't work, now I'm putting in all the lights around the map but whenever I do it, it looks really crappy and fake. Any tips?

[Gishank]

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[Spiderbot01]

Klop i know HOW to do it, I just want tips on making it look good...

[Dae]

You want to do nightime or daytime?

The main tip - experiment with light properties. Increase radius, brightness, change color and etc. For the effect of nightime you may try to set color to pale blue.

[Spiderbot01]

Nah I know how to do nightime, most of my outdoor maps are, i think I've sorted it now though, theres just going to be shadowy areas, I suppose as far as stealth is concerned that's a good thing...

[MainMan]

Here's a tip, if you want to do a daytime map, don't use a skybox. Actually make the areas, like so:

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_______________________
|DECORATION BUILDINGS |
|      _____________         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |   GAMEPLAY   |         |
|      |      AREA       |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |____________|         |
|______________________|


[Dae]

Here's a tip, if you want to do a daytime map, don't use a skybox. Actually make the areas, like so:

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_______________________
|DECORATION BUILDINGS |
|      _____________         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |   GAMEPLAY   |         |
|      |      AREA       |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |                     |         |
|      |____________|         |
|______________________|


Why not use a sky box?

And if you want i can type a few tips about day time and examples.

[MainMan]

Here's a tip, if you want to do a daytime map, don't use a skybox. Actually make the areas, like so:

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_______________________
|DECORATION BUILDINGS |
|      _____________  |
|      |                     ||
|      |                     ||
|      |   GAMEPLAY   |     |
|      |      AREA       |  |
|      |                     ||
|      |                     ||
|      |                     ||
|      |                     ||
|      |____________||
|______________________|


Why not use a sky box?

And if you want i can type a few tips about day time and examples.

my picture went kinda wrong.

Don't use a skybox because the daytime sky textures are unreallistic, so they need to be further away behind a wall/building to look good. Plus i tend not to use skyboxes to make it more reallistic - you're gonna get some noob thats gonna shoot the sky, and be like "wtf theres a wall th3r"

[Cozmo]

tip: for daytime maps i dont bother with editor.light much, i just set brightness in zoneinfo very high

[Bob]

tip: for daytime maps i dont bother with editor.light much, i just set brightness in zoneinfo very high

That's probably the best you'll get from the engine.