Making Certain Areas Darker than Others

SimonEnderB · May 10, 2022, 8:43pm

Short and simple. I’m trying to create a few specific areas of my game to be completely dark. Here’s what I mean:

The image above is what the building currently looks like.

This image is what I would like it to look like:

(I achieved the second image by changing the skybox to black, but that won’t work. I have other buildings and areas that rely on the lighting I have right now, and changing the skybox would ruin the game. I tried using fog meshes from the toolbox but they didn’t look good.

The building is made of unions, and it is all PBR. The lighting is on Future, and here are the lighting settings:

If anyone knows how I could get it to be like the second image WITHOUT effecting the current lighting (at least not to much), please let me know.

Crazedbrick1 · May 10, 2022, 9:30pm

The only way that I know of is to add a large part on top of the structure you want to darken. This won’t work if you have areas you want the player to access on top.

SimonEnderB · May 10, 2022, 11:38pm

Sadly, it’s packed together. Can’t fit anything else in.

Dev_JayR · May 10, 2022, 11:55pm

Why not just make everything completely dark (change the GlobalBrightness to 0, ToD to 21, etc), and then brighten up the areas that you want to be bright (using PointLights, SpotLights, etc)?

SimonEnderB · May 10, 2022, 11:57pm

I’m in the process of trying that now, but surface lights range are not far enough to cover my entire height of the build.

ZINTICK · May 11, 2022, 12:06am

you could maybe use a script to achieve different light setting in different areas

RMofSBI · May 11, 2022, 12:15am

Use a fog particle emitter and slow the speed down drastically and change the color and light and texture settings to mimic darkness.

ZINTICK · May 11, 2022, 12:15am

local Lighting = game.Lighting
local skyBox = Lighting.DarkSkyBox

local darkPart = workspace.darkPark
local lightPart = workspace.lightPart

local character = script.parent 
local head = character.Head

head.Touched:connect(function(Hit)
   if Hit.name == "darkPart" then
       -- insert lighting settings
       Lighting.Skybox.Enabled = true
   end
   if Hit.name == "lightPart" then
       --insert lighting settings
       Lighting.Skybox.Enabled = false
   end
end)

ZINTICK · May 11, 2022, 12:16am

just tell me the lighting setting when you want it not you want it not dark

@SimonEnderB yes it would be in there it would also be a local script if this game is for more then one player

SimonEnderB · May 11, 2022, 12:17am

It doesn’t fix the light seeping in through the corners.
I have a large area that I need dark, so the max particle limit will be reached far before I finish.

SimonEnderB · May 11, 2022, 12:18am

I assume this is a local script in StarterCharacterScripts?

ZINTICK · May 11, 2022, 12:21am

your also gonna have to make your own parts named darkPart and lightPart they cant be ina model but the can be unions

ZINTICK · May 11, 2022, 12:23am

You said that you have a back skybox you can change that too

ZINTICK · May 11, 2022, 12:28am

I edited my script it should disable and enable the skybox rn it wont work bc i need those settings

SimonEnderB · May 11, 2022, 12:31am

I got something working here:

local Lighting = game.Lighting

local darkPart = workspace.darkPart
local lightPart = workspace.lightPart

local character = script.parent 
local head = character.Head

local sky = Lighting.SkyLight

head.Touched:connect(function(Hit)
	if Hit.name == "darkPart" then
		sky.SkyboxBk = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		sky.SkyboxDn = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		sky.SkyboxFt = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		sky.SkyboxLf = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		sky.SkyboxRt = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		sky.SkyboxUp = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		Lighting.Brightness = 0
	end
	if Hit.name == "lightPart" then
		sky.SkyboxBk = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884337"
		sky.SkyboxDn = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884785"
		sky.SkyboxFt = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884337"
		sky.SkyboxLf = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884337"
		sky.SkyboxRt = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884337"
		sky.SkyboxUp = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6412503613"
		Lighting.Brightness = 3
	end
end)

Not very efficient, but it works good for me.

ZINTICK · May 11, 2022, 12:37am

Good job bro nothing i can see wrong

ZINTICK · May 11, 2022, 12:38am

its in a local script correct?

SimonEnderB · May 11, 2022, 12:42am

Yes

(30 thing limit blah blah)

icecreamgoat · January 24, 2024, 1:55am

--Local
local Char = script.parent 
local Hum = Char.Humanoid

--Lighting
local Lighting = game:GetService("Lighting")
local Sky = Lighting:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Sky")
local LightingTable = {
	["DarkPart"] = function()
		Sky.SkyboxBk = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		Sky.SkyboxDn = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		Sky.SkyboxFt = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		Sky.SkyboxLf = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		Sky.SkyboxRt = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		Sky.SkyboxUp = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=2675785344"
		Lighting.Brightness = 0
	end,
	["LightPart"] = function()
		Sky.SkyboxBk = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884337"
		Sky.SkyboxDn = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884785"
		Sky.SkyboxFt = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884337"
		Sky.SkyboxLf = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884337"
		Sky.SkyboxRt = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6444884337"
		Sky.SkyboxUp = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6412503613"
		Lighting.Brightness = 3
	end,
}

Hum.Touched:connect(function(Hit)
	if LightingTable[Hit.Name] then
		LightingTable[Hit.Name]()
	end
end)