Environmental "light" value

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The SDK discusses a byte value (0..255) that represents the current environment lighting (adjusted for time of day, sun elevation, moonlight). This value is used to colorize or tint the panels as a scale factor.Does anybody have any idea as to where this value can be found?

[n4gix 4,947]

The only entries that I'm aware of that will affect the panels in this manner are these from the panel.cfg:Day=255,255,255 <= affects 2d panel color, brightness (daytime)Night=32,32,32 <= affects 2d panel color, brightness (dusk/night/dawn)Luminous=190,190,190 <= affects gauge color, brightnessIf there's anything else, I'm don't know of it... ???

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Good point.The section in the panel.cfg determines what color is used for the highlight, but I wanted to get the scale factor FS currently applies to the non_luminous parts.From the SDK, tint = night + (day

[n4gix 4,947]

Arne's post re: sun, was to compute the angle of the sun at any given lat/lon/time/date, and was used as part of an algorithim to calculate the dawn/day/dusk/night transition points, since the returned value from the stock variable is either inaccessible for XML folks, or wholly unreliable for C gauges.I'm not aware of any accessible variable for the "sunlight" that you seek, nor of a way to modify what appears to be an protected internal function of one of the .dll files. It may be possible, but if so, it most certainly won't be easy... :(

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I was thinking perhaps of painting a bitmap, having FS modify it for night color, and grabbing it back to find out what FS did with it. Ideally, if you use a white pixel, you can deduce from the new value what the scale factor was. But, the problem is getting that image back - and the handle in the PELEMENT tree only gives me my image back - probably because DirectX actually does the rendering and FS just specifies a color matrix transformation.Argh.