night sky textures?

[Keirik]

hey guys,

I was wondering what the chances are of replacing the night sky textures with something more realistic. Anyone who's gone to a night game knows that the sky never looks very clear, dark, and full of stars like they do in mvp.

Basically what i'm looking for is a blended night sky that has a smokey grey, red, blue among other colors to represent a more realistic ballpark feel. A normal night game sky looks very illuminated due to the lights.

[Keirik]

darnit, i was really hoping someone out there was working on this :(

[RRodkey]

I've made a few custom night sky textures because the default one are terrible. But I ran into a problem. The "skydome" for the night versions of most stadiums stretches the textures very badly.

For example, if you add stars, they become elongated and distorted - even when using a large, hi-res texture. Clouds also become blurred and stretched in an unrealstic way. I think this is why EA didn't spend much time making quality night textures.

I've had success with a few stadiums. I installed a custom "sunset" sky to the Polo Grounds that came out really nice (full of orange and reddish hues). But when used for certain other stadiums as a "night" sky, it becomes distorted. It's all pretty much trial and error.

[mastasports1]

That distortion occurs because the bitmap is being stretched over the entire sky in the game. You would need to make the stars smaller and replicate any unproportional distortion.

[olyrunner]

I played around with Safeco a bit, thinking I could create dusk like I did in the AAA stadium. Somewhere I went wrong (it just made a really dark sunset). I think I'll keep it, though:

[Thome25]

oly that looks great.

[Keirik]

oly, those skies looks great for a night sky. They get a little bit darker with more of a greyish tone to it and it's almost exactly what im looking for.

IMO there really shouldn't be any stars in the sky at a baseball game. The lights are so brigh that usuallt the entire sky above the stadium is very grey rather than black. Grey=too light for stars to shine.

:)