Time of Day

hud15987 · Post by **hud15987** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:22 pm

Hey y'all!

I've been tinkering with my timberland for a while now, and I was wondering if it was possible to change the time of day to night or late evening? Say like on the campaign map "Truth and Reconciliation" with that sky and darkness sorta thing.

catch22 · Post by **catch22** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:24 pm

Yeah if you want that exact same sky start looking inot PMI ing. Im not a pro at pmiing so im not sure

hud15987 · Post by **hud15987** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:32 pm

what excatly is "pmiing"?

UPS · Post by **UPS** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:38 pm

PMI (Perfect Model Injection, wasn't it? Dunno) is basically rebuilding a map with additional items in it, such as skies, guns, AI, vehicles, scenery, etc.
Here is a tutorial:
http://halopc.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=594

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:59 pm

you can make your own sky based off it.
or do this: go into the bitmaps tag in HMT and copy the meta of stars and paste it over that of the sky. Then to darken the bsp go into HHT and go to the sbsp tag and null out the bitm dependency

halo0001 · Post by **halo0001** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:10 pm

or swap the sky in the bsp tag instead of doing meta offset swapping which can put holes in ur map

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:25 pm

you can also go into the sky tag and null out the sun

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:00 pm

but the sun rocks

and you know in space, i believe it can be dark and you can see the sun too

but maybe halo isnt in space or something

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:06 pm

if its just regular night time... do you see the sun at night?

EchoRanger449 · Post by **EchoRanger449** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:32 am

What if you just wanted to make the canyon walls pitch black? to do this, go to levels/test/(your level)/(your level) and null out the bitmap dependencies. I have a topic listed in the modding discussion on what nulling out each one does for bloodgulch.

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:16 am

Patrickh wrote:if its just regular night time... do you see the sun at night?

sometimes...and sometimes i see the moon in the day!!!

sangheili123 · Post by **sangheili123** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:20 pm

Andrew_b wrote:
Patrickh wrote:if its just regular night time... do you see the sun at night?
sometimes...and sometimes i see the moon in the day!!!

Loll you see a moon because that particular satellite is orbiting threshold, not halo. Technically, saying the moon is wrong, because it is the name given to the rock orbiting earth. The sun is the name of our star too. Just to avoid misinterpreting stuff:

Sun: Star
the moon: a moon(s)/natural satellite

Sorry if it was rude to you, but it is incorrect saying sun referring to a star that is not of our solar system.