[Community Project] WIP Weather & Water Shader

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@dazuk1978;550387

Hey ,

I’ve been using your new sky for a few days now and been tweaking my settings constantly to get a day/night cycle that looks good at any time, but I am running into some issues that I’m hoping you can help me with please?

The I have is with the skylight and shadow darkness etc. The shadow darkness seems entirely dependent on what time of day I initially press ‘Play’.
For example, if I set the time to 12 noon with my current settings, I have balanced them so the shadows are not entirely black, they are softer so you can see detail through them. So it’s 12 noon and I press ‘Play’ and get my nice ‘lighter’ shadows but when night time comes, it’s waaaay too bright.
So without changing any other settings I change the time of day to say 1am and it goes very dark. I press ‘Play’ and indeed it is very dark as intended, but as the sun comes up and goes through the day, my shadows are extremely dark.
So for some reason the skylight which is the factor in determining the shadow darkness etc is taking the initial settings from the time of day I am currently set to and using those no matter what time of day/night it is.
I’ve done a lot of messing with . I have no other lights or fog in the scene, I am only using your sky for the settings.

Have you any idea why is the case? Is it me or a bug in your Blueprints or an engine?
There’s a quick video below to show what I mean. Excuse the poor quality, but you should be able to see enough to understand the…
[video]https://vid.me/nxmK[/video]

Thanks

P.S - I’m not complaining by the way, you and the communities work is beyond .

Hey no worries! I know you aren’t complaining, project doesn’t have the best (or in most cases any) documentation so no need to feel bad about asking questions, I’m happy to help!

Because recapturing the skylight is expensive, I set it up to only capture every x seconds/minutes, by default it’s 10min I believe, and also needs to be enabled in the Atmosphere section of the details panel. It’s enabled by default in the demo project, but isn’t done by default in the blueprint.

So check that first, if it is set already then there might be a bug. I’m away from my computer at the moment so can’t double check, but that should work when enabled.

I’m working on a way to blend together multiple maps (captured from your game world at set times) that will eliminate the performance drops caused by recapturing the skylight, but more on that later.

Hope that fixes it! If not let me know and I’ll see what’s up.