[TEC] God's Lightswitch - FIXED!!!

danlisa · 08-23-07, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Someone help please - I've found out that the extra channel is definitely an alpha channel. To get the early/mid/late evening sky colours right I need to merge this channel with the RGB channels and output a standard RGB image as a result... but I don't know how to do this!

You can't merge an alpha channel into a RGB image. Alpha channels are a transparency layer and only (in this instance) show when the conditions are right i.e when the day is in the process of changing into night. That is when the alpha comes into play.

The only thing you might be able to do is edit/change the alpha channel to something more to your liking.

onelifecrisis · 08-23-07, 12:43 PM

Perhaps I didn't explain myself very well.

I want to do something like this to every RGBA pixel:

Red:=Red*Alpha/255
Green:=Green*Alpha/255
Blue:=Blue*Alpha/255
Alpha:=255

Is that a better description?

This should save me from having tio manually edit the colours until they look right.

onelifecrisis · 08-23-07, 01:42 PM

Nevermind - I did it the hard way.

Not sure why you think Alpha channel is used at sunrise/set - the alpha channel on the skies of all three oceans is pure white all morning/day/evening and only changes after the sun has vanished over the horizon (and is back to being white again before the sun appears on the horizon the next day). Whatever it affects, it affects it only at night.

onelifecrisis · 08-23-07, 02:51 PM

I finally found out what the transparency in the sky is for - it's so you can see the stars! :rotfl:

By playing with the sky colours I've managed to get the mod so that it is indistinguishable from normal GWX, except for this one thing - and I don't think it can be worked around

Well for me personally god's lightswitch is more annoying than no stars, so I'm happy, but methinks the majority of people will want their evenings starlit :hmm:

onelifecrisis · 08-23-07, 04:03 PM

Well seeing as this is the culmination of weeks of trial and error, here are the test shots anyway. BTW all though they aren't in these screenies (had to leave the camera in the default position to be sure of getting the same shot twice) the sun and moon both work fine... only the stars are missing.

One side of each screen has the lightswitch fix installed, the other doesn't.

JCWolf · 08-24-07, 06:01 AM

Yep thats what I missed 2, the stars also, with the last
16km mod from Reece there are some strange graphic failier
on the ships shadows on the water, it looks like rect lines
drawn on the sea water were is suposed to be the shadow,
however it hapends from time to time and not regulary!

forgot to take the Screenes sorry but I will next time....
I do not have the slightest idea on how to correct this,
maybe some one can!...

REECE

08-23-07, 02:51 PM	#4
onelifecrisis Maverick Modder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England Posts: 3,895 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 3	I finally found out what the transparency in the sky is for - it's so you can see the stars! :rotfl: By playing with the sky colours I've managed to get the mod so that it is indistinguishable from normal GWX, except for this one thing - and I don't think it can be worked around Well for me personally god's lightswitch is more annoying than no stars, so I'm happy, but methinks the majority of people will want their evenings starlit :hmm: Last edited by onelifecrisis; 08-23-07 at 04:12 PM.

08-24-07, 06:01 AM	#6
JCWolf Admiral Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Spain , Crossing Gibraltar! Posts: 2,292 Downloads: 202 Uploads: 1	Yep thats what I missed 2, the stars also, with the last 16km mod from Reece there are some strange graphic failier on the ships shadows on the water, it looks like rect lines drawn on the sea water were is suposed to be the shadow, however it hapends from time to time and not regulary! forgot to take the Screenes sorry but I will next time.... I do not have the slightest idea on how to correct this, maybe some one can!... REECE __________________ JCWolf Mediafire SHIII Page User name : JCWolf Password : stefre@jcm

08-23-07, 12:43 PM	#2
onelifecrisis Maverick Modder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England Posts: 3,895 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 3	Perhaps I didn't explain myself very well. I want to do something like this to every RGBA pixel: Red:=RedAlpha/255 Green:=GreenAlpha/255 Blue:=Blue*Alpha/255 Alpha:=255 Is that a better description? This should save me from having tio manually edit the colours until they look right.

08-23-07, 01:42 PM	#3
onelifecrisis Maverick Modder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England Posts: 3,895 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 3	Nevermind - I did it the hard way. Not sure why you think Alpha channel is used at sunrise/set - the alpha channel on the skies of all three oceans is pure white all morning/day/evening and only changes after the sun has vanished over the horizon (and is back to being white again before the sun appears on the horizon the next day). Whatever it affects, it affects it only at night.

08-23-07, 04:03 PM	#5
onelifecrisis Maverick Modder Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England Posts: 3,895 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 3	Well seeing as this is the culmination of weeks of trial and error, here are the test shots anyway. BTW all though they aren't in these screenies (had to leave the camera in the default position to be sure of getting the same shot twice) the sun and moon both work fine... only the stars are missing. One side of each screen has the lightswitch fix installed, the other doesn't.