Making Certain Areas Darker than Others

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

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The image above is what the building currently looks like.

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

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(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:

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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.

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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.

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

4

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)?

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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.

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

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

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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)
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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

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  1. It doesn’t fix the light seeping in through the corners.

  2. I have a large area that I need dark, so the max particle limit will be reached far before I finish.

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I assume this is a local script in StarterCharacterScripts?

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

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

14

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

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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.

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16

Good job bro nothing i can see wrong

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its in a local script correct?

18

Yes

(30 thing limit blah blah)

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--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)