Small help needed with the .smd file

[LathanStanley]

Well... I've generated a large 25x20 map, pretty impressive looking too....
but I have 1 problem...

I CAN'T FIGURE HOW TO TELL THE SUN TO POINT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION !!!

I'm guessing that the #'s represent x y z and the rotation according..

but where does the sun point initially?, how much variance do these numbers have on where it points??

does 90 mean it points E on the first #? or does 1?

I've been farting with it for hours... and frankly its making me lose interest.....

I just want it to point in a SE direction (so shadows are cast on the SE sides of hills...), maybe 45-60 degrees up from the horizion....

Please help if ya can

[Gnomre]

The numbers are between 0 and 1, but beyond that I don't know. Did you try reding the wiki?

[LathanStanley]

The numbers are between 0 and 1, but beyond that I don't know. Did you try reding the wiki?

I've read about everything I can find on the boards...

but this wiki... I dunno... maybe?

edit: yeah I read that page allready... it just states to copy someone elses and toy with it....

dosen't tell me piddidle about what the hell the #'s mean or how to use any of em ... only thing that I see that makes me go ewww... is the comment after the #'s

"//direction of sun (spring will normalize it later)(y component is upward)"

makes me wonder if the sun HAS to point from the South towards the North....

[LathanStanley]

oh and btw, the wiki is wrong... the hightmaps and resource maps... are the terrain map divided by 8... not 4

guess I should change that

[LathanStanley]

ok I figured it out completely... updating the wiki in a few

[aGorm]

I never had it down as 4.... when I made it it used the words and 1/8 of teh size + 1. Someone must have changed it thinking i had it rong! (what a muppet)

Thanks for clearing up the sun poss,. as i didn't know.... other than less than one. (hence i used my fiddle get out clause!)

aGorm

[LathanStanley]

I never had it down as 4.... when I made it it used the words and 1/8 of teh size + 1. Someone must have changed it thinking i had it rong! (what a muppet)

Thanks for clearing up the sun poss,. as i didn't know.... other than less than one. (hence i used my fiddle get out clause!)

aGorm

yeah it was written as 1/4 when I read it... I fixed it for ya.. it was a tiny itty bitty fix so I'm not gonna bother with credit on that

as I figure out other stuff I'll update it

[aGorm]

Cool... after all, im the man with no time...

aGorm