Strange Lighting Issue

3ndoflin3 · July 16, 2015, 5:20pm

I’m not sure if the other below thread might be helpful or not, TakoMT clued me in that the day/night cycle uses the Persistent Level ‘Level Blueprint’ which you can see in ‘TheIsland’ going to the main menu->Window->Levels and in the ‘Levels’ window clicking on the gamepad looking icon for the persistent level screen right. I looked at it some a bit, but wasn’t sure about copying the logic I was interested in over, hoping maybe the workshop ‘mod template’ small level has the day/night system setup so that I can work from this as a base since ‘TheIsland’ level is so big it tends to slow or crash my system.

The daylight/weather system and as to why the sun sucks with starfield showing bla bla bla was a little tedious to solve, but managed to solve it. You need to do something that is unfortunately not mentioned in 's tutorials (maybe at that time it copied them)… You need to do the ‘Level Blueprint’.

You access this through the levels window (where you create new levels for streaming - has a video if you confused on this)… this screen will contain the logic of the map from the underwater particles, to weather effects, heat waves, cold front… everything is basically managed from this. Simply open ‘TheIsland’ to compare and see what needs to be done. There are some handy tutorials on youtube on how to work with this blueprint but it did take me some time to understand… but was worth it once I saw a nice shiny son and the day cycle was working .

N.B. - You can copy the logic from one side to the other, but it does not copy events and some asset elements so you need to see TheIsland and work it out… again its not easy, but worth the end result.