no sunshine

clayton4115

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hi all

can anyone tell me how i can make the sunshine in trainz TANE SP2, it looks kinda dark even in day time and there is no sunshine / shadows etc any option to remedy this ?
 
Use the Environment controls in Session Edit mode in Surveyor.
These are very powerful and allow you to change the ambient brightness, cloud and weather effects, day and night cycles, and light qualities, colours, etc.
Shadows can be turned on or off using the Trainz Settings dialog accessible from Launcher.
Many post processing effects can be applied as well, to create highly realistic sunshine crepuscular ray effects to boot.
 
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The Environment settings are saved in Session Edit mode in Surveyor, allowing you to create many different time-of-day lighting and weather effects so you can have multiple sessions based upon the same route but with different starting times, weather and fog conditions, etc.
To access the dialog, click on Edit Environment... from the Main Menu.

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The 24 hour clock at the centre of the dialog allows you to set conditions that will prevail at the day or night interval marked by the green 'LED buttons' surrounding the dial.
Click on each of the green buttons to change the settings of the other controls, including the RGB (Red Green Blue) dials, the ambient, sun and water colours, sky type and cloud settings, and actuate the slider below to increase or decrease fog density.
This gives you a fine degree of control over the atmospheric conditions that will prevail at dawn, sunset, noon and midnight and the system will interpolate the appropriate transitional lighting conditions etc. in the intervals between during runtime.

The Post Processing Effects controls are best viewed from the Developer Menu in Launcher ('Show Post-Processing settings...').
 
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1) Under Settings in the launcher, ensure that post processing is set high. If you do make any changes, you'll have to restart.

2) Click on developer menu item, on the launcher.

3) pick post processing and try the presets, or play around with the settings.

Go into driver and enjoy the scenery. There maybe a performance hit due to the extra processing. You also may have to make changes in the main menu under graphics performance settings.

Keep in mind these developer-settings aren't permanent, meaning you will have to set them again the next time you drive. This is on the to-do list.
 
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