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Hi @murfee
When the base game was released, EA made the sky and sea colours for Sunset Valley controlled purely by ini files, which are found in [Game Install Location]\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Ini.
By the time World Adventures was released, they realised that they wanted to have each world with different sea and sky lighting, so they packaged ini files that controlled the sea and sky parameters inside each world file, along with DDS image files which controlled the sea and sky colour.
So, if you make a world in CAW, it will have the same lighting as Sunset Valley- unless you override this with custom ini and DDS files in the world file, or with a custom lighting mod in your game Mods folder.
The ini files and DDS files that we were playing with in
this thread are directly exported from the EA worlds. Most of the EA worlds have five different types of lighting (although the vacation worlds only have two). These change according to the parameters in the ini files- for example, in Bridgeport you can expect the weather to change a couple of times a day, and some weather types are more common than others. But for a custom world I made, I set it so that the weather changed every few hours, and that all weather types were equally probable. It's really up to you on how you want your world to be.
What I would suggest is to try importing the ini and DDS files from the EA worlds to your custom world and play a while to see what the sky and sea look like. Or, use the cloudiness slider in CAW to change the weather as described in
this post as discovered by atra-virago.
Then, when you have an idea of what kind of colours and cloud colour you like, you can experiment by changing the parameters in the ini files and the colours in the colour ramps, to make your own weather.
This image is good to look at to give some clues as to the purpose of each colour ramp.
If you look at this colour ramp:
You can see numbers at the bottom. This shows the time of day- from midnight through midday and back to midnight. So you can see that the more orange colours occur at sunrise and sunset. What you could do is try changing the colour of the whole image, by changing the tone or colour tint in a photoediting program, or else you could try changing individual stripes to change specific attributes. Most of us have done this by trial and error!
I also have some images which show the effects of some of the parameters in the ini files. Find attached file, I put some brief notes in there too.
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2016-08-06 06:01:04 D.... 0 0 Tests/DaytimeBloom
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2016-08-06 06:01:04 D.... 0 0 Tests/Fog Start End
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2016-08-06 06:01:05 D.... 0 0 Tests/ManmadeLight Intensity
2016-08-06 06:01:05 D.... 0 0 Tests/Moon Radius
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2016-08-06 06:01:05 D.... 0 0 Tests/Sharpness
2016-08-06 06:01:05 D.... 0 0 Tests/Star Intensity
2016-08-06 06:01:05 D.... 0 0 Tests/Sun Degree Offset
2016-08-06 06:01:05 D.... 0 0 Tests/Sun Halo
2016-08-06 06:01:05 D.... 0 0 Tests/Sun Radius
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2016-08-06 06:01:05 D.... 0 0 Tests/texCoordUtexCoordV/New folder
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2012-05-11 17:35:22 ....A 379865 Tests/HorizonLightMinimum/HorizonLightMinimum 100.jpg
2012-05-11 17:36:39 ....A 41 Tests/HorizonLightMinimum/Settings.txt
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2012-01-22 17:11:33 ....A 1407 Tests/texCoordUtexCoordV/New folder/S3_1F886EAD_00000000_560C0FD7012DA7F3_2-PartlyCloudy%%+_INI.ini
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2012-01-22 13:51:13 ....A 48 Tests/VisibilityThreshold/New Text Document.txt
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