I installed a beautiful lighting mod called The Blue Dream by Voeille, but I can't just change the colors because it doesn't use color ramps, only ini. I want to change it for my own gameplay because it is very unlikely for the creator to update it. I noticed that the clouds turn an overly saturated purple during the day, auroras at night, the water is a little too blue but I don't like EA water, and the nights don't actually get really dark until around 1am which are the things I don't like.

Otherwise, I love how vibrant and colorful the sky is during the day. No other lighting mod I have installed so far came close to these colors. How do you go about changing sky colors by ini RGB numbers? I want the clouds to be white, no auroras, lighten the blue water some, and make nights consistently dark.

Extract the inis from the package file. Take a look at which sky type (Sky clear, sky overcast etc) they override, and find the ones you don't like. You might need Cmo's weather stone to do this as you can change the sky type and hour using it:
https://modthesims.info/d/481816
The basegame has 30 ini files but I'm guessing Voeille's mod doesn't override them all...


If you take a look at the basegame inis, you'll see that they have a handy-dandy explanation in the comments to tell you what they do. Basically the ones that define colour are like a text version of the colour ramps- the colour ramps have a gradient that changes according to the time of day, but the colour ramps silly simsample text files have a RGB value that changes according to the time of day.




So compare these to the numbers in Voeille's files to see what you want to change. The hours are in 24hr format, to 4 is 4am and 18 is 6pm. I always found that it's useful to use a photoediting programme to create the colour I want, and then use the colour picker to find the RGB values of that to put into the ini. Remember black is 0,0,0 and white is 255,255,255.

In case the package file doesn't have the text names of the files, this might help you to identify them by the FNV hash number:


I hope this helps!

Thank you so much! Helped me out a lot. I will post an update. :D

Oh good, glad I was of some use! Good luck!

*awkward laugh*

I attempted some and took a long thought and gave up. I went back to the creator's post and realized that I will have to do this for every world in the game, plus any custom world I have that already has it's own lighting.

And I was like, nah...

I don't even know how to make a world file that would have this edited lighting mod included.

You can extract the individual files and import them directly into the world file to have it work on a specific world, or else make a new package file and add them all to that, and stick it in your Mods folder to have it work on all worlds.