How can I add a "lighting brightness property"-like effect to ViewportFrame?

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#1

(before anyone says “ViewportFrames don’t have a ‘lighting brightness’ property”, I’m not asking about that, I’m asking how I could simulate that with a script manipulating the ViewportFrame lighting properties we do have)

How could I simulate “brightness” and/or “Time of Day” (similar/same thing as “brightness”?) while trying to keep it as accurate to regular lighting properties as possible in a ViewportFrame? I know it’ll likely take a bit of math to get the “brightness”, color, and “blueness” (when it’s less bright) to work together, but I just don’t know what that math would look like.

This is what inspired me to ask about it and also an example
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Note how when bright it just normal(ish) color (but much brighter than the ViewportFrame reflection for some reason), and when dark it has more of a blue-ish tint (and a little darker than the ViewportFrame reflection). basically I want to simulate that lighting effect in ViewportFrames, but I’m just not good with math lol

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#2

have you considered using shiny/reflective parts like robuilder?

How to Make Super Reflective Parts! - YouTube

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#3

You can blast up the Color3 of a ViewportFrame beyond it’s initial Color3 value. For example

viewportFrame.Color3 = Color3.new(1.5, 1.5, 1.5)

I use this to simulate brightness in my Viewport package.

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