Editing Mission Builder (section)

=== Finishing Touches ===

A few random things you can use to modify the look of your mission.

==== Water ====

Water is created in cubes - either single small areas or one big enough to fill the entire map.  You can find '''Water''' under '''Mission Objects'''.  Don't worry about the parameters, they're easy to change later.

[[File:MB Screen 23.jpg]]

Once you have your water (it will look like a 2D sheet, only the surface is really visible) you can move it into place and start changing the parameters.  I recommend opening up a level which has water you like the look of, and copying that.  You can make the water appear to flow, change the colour, and all sorts of other things.  I've copied the water from the gates of Elms, and made it look a bit less appealing.

[[File:MB Screen 24.jpg]]

==== Weather ====

You can also play with the depth fog.  If you look through the list of objects which are created for you, you should be able to find '''Sky'''.  There are various different parameters - in this screenshot I've reduced the fog distance and visible distance down to almost nothing.

[[File:MB Screen 25.jpg]]

You can also change the fog colour (it uses [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB#Numeric_representations RGB] colour values).  Here I've produced a nice pink fog.  Very pretty.

[[File:MB Screen 27.jpg]]

The final thing you can try is to change the sky texture.  Have a look at '''MaterialList''' under '''Media'''.  This is your current sky texture.  If you find that file, there will be others in the same directory with the same extension.  Those are the other possible sky textures.  Play around until you find one that suits the mood of your level.  This is the stormy sky texture, but there are a lot of others.

[[File:MB Screen 26.jpg]]

==== Sunlight ====

The last thing to try is changing the colour of the sunlight, if you want a sunset or stormy feel.  Find the '''Sun''' object, and you can change the colour in the same way as with the fog.  You will need to recalculate lighting for this to work.  Here is an example with a reddish sun, although it turned out a bit too pink to really look like sunset.  I also set the fog to yellowish brown, to blend in with the desert a bit better.

[[File:MB Screen 28.jpg]]