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Cabin or House Glow

John Hubbard

John Hubbard

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It's dusk. The chimney is smokin' but the house inside is in darkness. Some of you folks might know how to get a low glow in the window.

I tried placing several effects but none worked.

I'd be grateful for advice.
 
Big777jet

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use attitude moves up 20 feet or 30 feet so you can see smoke if the ground it may be hiding under house small smoke. Try different smoke effect It happens me not working try another similar name of smoke try smokestack or smoke or chimney etc...



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tgibson

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If this uses painted windows, use a night texture to light them up. If this uses real openings, then use night textures on the interior surfaces to light them up.
 
John Hubbard

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After some experimentation I took the easy way out and found a different log cabin - one with a smoking chimney and interior lights from dusk to dawn.

As someone totally unschooled in object design, I am intrigued by the idea that a texture can somehow be 'clocked' so it switches off and on at certain times of day. If I knew the basis of this, I might be able to switch off the cabin lights when the occupants turn in for the night.
 
Deano1973

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John Hubbard said:
After some experimentation I took the easy way out and found a different log cabin - one with a smoking chimney and interior lights from dusk to dawn.

As someone totally unschooled in object design, I am intrigued by the idea that a texture can somehow be 'clocked' so it switches off and on at certain times of day. If I knew the basis of this, I might be able to switch off the cabin lights when the occupants turn in for the night.
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You could script a simple XML visibility code and add it to your modeldef.xml in the SDK. The script would tell the night texture ( warm glow ) to vanish after say midnight, as though the occupants had gone to bed. I don't have a good example of a script like that, but there should be one here that you can seek out, they're quite simple once you have a go at them :)
 
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