Avoiding sunset sky hues at 2:30 pm?

BraselC5048

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I’ve got a nagging issue that most skies with a few clouds have the clouds start to take on pinkish sunset hues far too early in the day (same for morning), pink starting at 3 pm, and the daytime clouds generally show sunrise/sunset/daily cycle lighting changes over far too much of a portion of the day. I edited the lighting, and have solid gray for both sets of dials from 7am to 5 pm, but that didn’t fix the problem. (And I’m not using one of those always sunset skies either.)
Looking outside, the sky colors in Trainz at 3 pm look like (converted for Trainz sunset times) what in real life would be nearly 5 pm. Is there any way to do something with the lighting to keep clouds from going pink until it’s actually close to sunset, and like very late afternoon until it’s actually very late afternoon?

Coming at it from the other direction, can you edit the sky asset for the same effect? There seems to be noticeable differences in sky hue/times between different sky assets, but i haven’t found anything in their config or textures that accounts for that. (I can convert .texture files.)
 
Using the Edit Environment settings you can make the sky box behave in any manner you choose. Click on the dots around the clock and edit the RGB values to get the effect you desire. You can also add and remove the dots for a more fine tuned environment. Try loooking at some routes with environment settings that you like and note the RGB dial settings for each dot.
 
Colours at any point on the clock are a proportional blend of the colours at the 2 adjacent points on the clock (i.e. before and after the time you're looking at). If your skies are prematurely looking like sunset, you can add a grey point just before the true sunset point to stop the sunset colours bleeding into the afternoon colours too early.
 
There is a full reference on the Trainz Wiki at How_to_Use_Environment_Tools
What what? Skybox colors for different areas of the sky? I had absolutely no idea that existed, or that it was the reason the sky is displayed on that window in the first place. Okay, under this set of circumstances of what I did, not adjusting those should result in exactly the same problem I'm having. I haven't actually had time to adjust them yet, but yah, problem solved, and I hope you can understand why I brought this up, from the results of not knowing that.
 
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