How do I get rid of sunset rain?

[caralampio]

Time ago I started a thread about not liking SS's new sky textures. But it isn't all of them; in fact, I love many of them, especially some night ones. Or that clear sunny day when you can even see the jet contrails in the sky! No but don't take me wrong, I love that one, the contrails don't bother me and the sky is so blue. I've not seen such a blue sky in years, thanks to pollution.

As I've been playing a lot, I've come to pinpoint the single one I hate: It is sunset rain. I mean the one that looks like this:



It isn't even all of the ambient I hate, but just that beige color of the mountains. It is so contrasting with the blackened sky that it irritates the mind. It is just too unnatural. I've checked vanilla sunset_rain and there, the horizon is beige but the sky is beige too... Making a plausible ambient.

I want to try two approaches (I already have in fact but without success).

A) What defines the beige color of the mountains? If this could be modded into moderately dark grey, or at least into a rusty dark brown, I think the whole picture would improve vastly.

B) Return to vanilla sunset_rain. I've tried replacing sunset_rain in SS with vanilla version, but the ugly sky keeps appearing. In fact, I've tried deleting globallighting entirely, as King Kong himself suggested, and nothing happens- the new sky textures do not go away.

I wonder if there is not a file that must be deleted in order for changes in globallighting to register? I mean similar to having to delete map.rwm for certain changes on tha map to register.

Please help, sunset rain is driving me nuts.

[caralampio]

I spent all day on it but I found it. I had to delete (well, put aside in a backup folder) not only sunset_rain_texture, but all other files in the globallighting/sunset/textures folder that have names beginning with sunset_rain or sunset_storm. Also, remove the file globallighting/sunset/sunset_cloudy.lighting.

Result: Vanilla skies!



I also removed all the sunrise folder files that have names starting with sunrise_rain or sunrise_storm, because sunrise rain doesn't look too good either. IMO.

[Alxaro]

That looks awesome! If you would upload the files it will be even more awesome

[Santiago de Pola]

What a cool discovery, those damn mountains bugged me too! Hmmm..maybe compile it to a micromod!

[caralampio]

Nothing to upload. Just remove the files I said above (back them up first) from data/globalighting/sunset/textures. And data/globallighting/sunrise/textures, if you also don't like the sunrise rain scene (sunrise has a similar problem, beige montains and blue sky).

To check the textures before and after removing, go into a custom battle and set the conditions to sunset/rain and sunrise/rain.

Interestingly, removing the sunrise_storm files does not affect battles occuring in sunset+storm conditions... You still get a very cool and realistic rainstorm.