Make the Moon bigger

[TheMetalCarrots]

Apologies if this question has been asked previously, but I was wondering if there was any way to resize the moon that appears on the default night sky - I assume, if it is at all possible, it requires the editing of textures/DBC files, but that's merely speculation, so I thought I'd ask here before I plunged blindly into resizing the moon.

Thanks in advance,
Me.

[Alastor]

I think its geoset with plane structure in M2 of sky so you will have to extroduse it

[schlumpf]

As far as I remember that had been part of the day night cycle stuff and is hard coded. You can try reverse engineering stuff around DNPlanet, and try to find a size field there. If there is, you would have to patch the binary to override the value.

[TheMetalCarrots]

Aight, I'll try these suggestions and report back. Thanks!

[schlumpf]

It is in fact hardcoded:

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void DayNight::CDayNightObjectInt::LoadMap (int map)
{
  if (info.g_initialized)
  {
    UnloadMap();
  }
  info.Initialize (map, s_useNewFog);
  lightRecs.LightLoad (map);
  assert (g_areaLightOverrides.Count()==0);
  info.g_initialized = true;
 
  sky.Initialize();
  clouds.Initialize();
  sunGlare.Initialize ("Textures\sunGlare.blp", &sun);
  moonGlare.Initialize ("Textures\moonGlare.blp", &moon);
  sun.Initialize ("Textures\sunCenter.blp", 1.0, 1.0);
  moon.Initialize ("Textures\moon.blp", 1.75, 1.0);
  moon2.Initialize ("Textures\moon02.blp", 1.0, 1.7);
  stars.Initialize();
}
You would want to change those two floats in DayNight::DNPlanet::Initialize, I guess. Not sure which one is which.

[Skarn]

It is in fact hardcoded:

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void DayNight::CDayNightObjectInt::LoadMap (int map)
{
  if (info.g_initialized)
  {
    UnloadMap();
  }
  info->Initialize (map, s_useNewFog);
  lightRecs->LightLoad (map);
  assert (g_areaLightOverrides.Count()==0);
  info.g_initialized = true;
 
  sky->Initialize();
  clouds->Initialize();
  sunGlare->Initialize ("Textures\sunGlare.blp", &sun);
  moonGlare->Initialize ("Textures\moonGlare.blp", &moon);
  sun->Initialize ("Textures\sunCenter.blp", 1.0, 1.0);
  moon->Initialize ("Textures\moon.blp", 1.75, 1.0);
  moon2->Initialize ("Textures\moon02.blp", 1.0, 1.7);
  stars->Initialize();
}
You would want to change those two floats in DayNight::DNPlanet::Initialize, I guess. Not sure which one is which.

I wonder how many such code snippets have you got on your computer?   You have the entire client reversed or just some parts of it?

[schlumpf]

I wonder how many such code snippets have you got on your computer?   You have the entire client reversed or just some parts of it?

I usually don't save them after posting, so the amount of snippets I still have is quite low.

Also, I just realized that those are all non-pointers but plain members.

[kojak488]

Just edit the skybox and make that mesh larger.  It's no different than modifying any other .m2 with animations.

[schlumpf]

Just edit the skybox and make that mesh larger.  It's no different than modifying any other .m2 with animations.

The moon is _not_ part of any M2 for the normal sky.

[kojak488]

Just edit the skybox and make that mesh larger.  It's no different than modifying any other .m2 with animations.

The moon is _not_ part of any M2 for the normal sky.

I'm not sure what you're getting at.  You can edit the meshes in a skybox and make a moon bigger that way.  When I edited a skybox's day/night cycle (as a hackfix, obviously), I played around with the size of the moon in that skybox because it's merely a mesh in the m2 file.  I posted a video of the skybox somewhere in my post history if it's worth's time to look in to.

[schlumpf]

The moon is _not_ part of any M2 for the normal sky.

Yes, if you have a skybox, you can do that. You could also replace the moon with a duck then. The default moon is hardcoded though.