How do i make map night

[Jojje Nilsson]

im really wondering how to make a map night please answear

[Marco Skoll]

If there's not specifically a night version of the map, the best you can really do without decompiling and editing the map yourself is to change the skybox (as Dover says) and use the technique of Day for Night[en.wikipedia.org].

Actually, I recommend the Day for Night technique in general, because once you make a scene high contrast and blue-tinted, the audience immediately accepts that it's something happening at night, so you can then actually make the scene quite bright, making it easy to see what's going on (and reducing colour banding, particularly after the image/video is compressed).

This image of mine, for example, isn't actually that dark but most people will probably accept that it's a night-time scene:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1296713687

[Jojje Nilsson]

Originally posted by Dover:

Change the skybox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW3vUhw2UFs

Im just wondering the map is still light how do i make it darker do i enable lightning or is there other way?

[EmperorFaiz.wav]

The easiest way is to reduce the camera's toneMapScale. The better and yet harder way is to decompile the map, import into Hammer and adjust the map lightings to make an actual dark map.

[Marco Skoll]

Bear in mind that the tonemapscale that EmperorFaiz mentions affects the brightness of everything in the image, including "selfillum" particles and textures that generate their own lighting (in order to give them the appearance of glowing) that often cannot easily have their brightness boosted.

For this reason, production trickery like I mentioned before is often preferred.