Orbit: Weather & Seasons BP

[jojo8026]

@Architect3D;612430

Hi Christian, Im having extreme difficulty adjusting settings to get the lighting i want for a moonlight horror setting. Im guessing this has something to do with how you tied in allot of features to be used with the seasonal time of day settings, and or presets. Problems Ive encountered below…

1.Moon light Shadow Castings.
The moon light has no shadow casting flag option, I fixed that manually. but this should be automatic as night scenes look terribly unrealistic without shadow casting.

2.Nightscene Ambient Lighting.
Another major problem I have is ambient lighting settings, It doesn’t seem to work for me in midnight. My scenes look awfully dark in shadowy areas. It has worked occasional, but I must have adjusted something tied to overall tod settings. I have almost all ticks unchecked to be tied to tod. problem remains. So I just created a duplicate moonlight, turn off shadows and adjust. would be nice if this was fixed.

3.Cloud Color.
I cant seem to change the color of the clouds manually as shown in your video in midnight time

4.Volumetric fog.
This has no effect or doesn’t work in midnight settings.

I would suggest a few things to make this more developer friendly. Create two seperate blueprints, one with seasonal changes and or TOD tied settings. And a second blueprint specifically for complete custom user control settings which are not tied to each other via TOD.

Its hard to follow your video. it should be broken down into categories for easy reference. example. 5 min video for back round clouds, 5 min video for moon settings. 5 min video for installation, etc. placed into a playlist titled Orbit Customization.

Additionally, Most of your parameters don’t have a basic tooltip explanation which would help enormously as opposed to spending time going to video reference.

I think your product is great, love the way the clouds look, and with all the settings available it should be the only product to go to for lighting outdoor environments. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have complete control to get a specific look one might be after. But I think you can fix that quickly. Hope you can help me out

This is something I would want to do as well if you could add this quick, I would totally buy this from the marketplace Day 1