OK, I caved and bought ECII after reading a previous thread about it. But, I must be some kind of moron, because I don't see how to get the season editor to maintain my light setting after exiting environment creator... it simply reverts to the "BASE" setting for the season editor.

Help? ;)

Thanks!

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I'm not very familiar with the program but you might want to IM Paul [pcbos2](http://www.renderosity.com/members.ez?Who=pcbos2) in case he doesn't see your question...he's very helpful on the details.

Huh... you're right, Kiera. I hadn't done much with the Season Maker until now, but after I read your post I went into it and tried changing some seasonal parameters. When I exited, the lights reverted back to the base state, just like they did for you. There must be a step we're missing. Paul Bos seems to be very good about providing assistance for EC... if you get an answer from him about this, would you mind passing it on?

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Hi Kiera,

I doubt you're a moron :-)

But I don't quite understand your question.

SeasonMaker is meant solely for making and editing Seasons. What you got in the packet (haven't yet had time to supply more quality ones) is Northern European light.
When you start SeasonMaker, It loads it's own definition to give you as much a balanced "season-view" as possible. Later on, in the other modules, you can do whatever you like to the "weather".

So it stands to reason, that upon exit, all changes are put overboard, and the whole basic LightSet is left, as it were, untouched- since you use Seasonmaker for one purpose only: defining Seasons- for later use in the SunDial, where you can finetune to the minute.

You can save these Seasons, and load them later in the SunDial- but read the helpfiles before you go overwriting the supplied Season Defs! (Red Question Mark, topmenu, right) There is a step-by-step tutorial to be found under the RQM, that you can put next to the program while you work- should make for fast learning.

IMPORTANT:
--if you CAN't see a Question Mark, your videocard is set wrong, and - thanks to Dialyn putting me on to this- it just so happens that I uploaded a utility here, in the ProPack freebies section, that will help you.

It also holds a tutorial.

OK, hope this clarified things for you. Read the helpfiles, I put an immense amount of work & thought into it, and I believe they can be of great help to you.

If you have any question, don't hesitate to mail me at

tech@pcbos.nl

Enjoy,

Paul Christiaan

http://www.pcbos.nl
follow link "Poser"