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May 30, 2004, 7:12pm

As it turns out the squares/lines I was seeing was not from the envirobox
itself but from the cloud layer jpgs. A change of the cloud layers fixed
that. So the envirobox does a great job except the only problem would be if
you have high mtns in the E or W for which the sun will rise/set in front
(if you are using a bot to do your time of day changes). The moon would do
likewise. That of course is an aw fault, after all, they never expected
*Enviroboxes* now did they LOL. What I'll do to skirt that is take a couple
of my other skyboxes where I left E and W open down to the horizon and make
enviros out of them. Otherwise you can perhaps use the light source but just
have no sun/moon visible or have them stationary higher up or something.

The only other thing I see is that the enviro apparently doesn't have the
ability to change with the world lighting, in other words it stays the
brightness it is. So, I think, like a skybox ... I'll do a set of these so
that your bots can change from one enviro to another so it will appear to
change lighting, perhaps four times a day as with a skybox.

BTW Alex, the world attributes section in the updated bot rocks! I love
being able to change the lighting, skycolors, etc, without doing so from the
World Features tab. Great work!!!

Folks ... please, feel free to test this envirobox out if you own a world,
perhaps as a group we can make it better? I'll be making more as soon as
I've tweaked this one to my liking. Oh and thanks to Kathryn Delanuit,
FaeLinn and Elysium for their input!

LNH



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