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Hello Henry,

shouldn't the client use the file [user home]\...\user_settings\windlight\days\Default.xml, if it is available, like the files in windlight\skies and windlight\water, overriding the defaults?

Looks like it only uses the Default.xml in [client folder]\app_settings\windlight\days

So on each update of the client the file is overwritten and the settings gone.

Any chance to fix/improve that?

Thank you!

This is not a bug, but the expected and normal behaviour... I suggest you name your custom settings otherwise than "Default"...

Renamed it, didnt help. You can only load/save in the client without giving a name, it's always loading/saving from/to the client folder.

OK, I'm kind of late for the party, but I'm getting this little issue at each reinstall too, so I thought I'd chime in.
So I do have to redefine my custom day cycle settings each time, but beside that very minor point, isn't that a problem to store user settings in Cool VL Viewer's installation folder? If the user is not an administrator, it will probably not work, am I right? And if there are several users on different accounts and they both want a custom day cycle, won't the second one override the changes made by the first one? Because there's no way in the interface to give a custom name to the day cycle, it seems to always be saved to Default.xml…

Custom settings are not saved into the viewer installation directory but in the (per OS-account/login) user_settings directory

You may also override all viewer default settings with files installed in user_settings/windlight/[days|skies|water]

Finally, you can use the Cool VL Viewer Lua scripting feature to setup Windlight however you like on login.

For skies and water settings, you're absolutely right. But are you sure it really works that way for day cycles? I always do a custom day cycle via World -> Environment settings -> Day cycle editor, but it doesn't seem to save anything in …/user_settings/windlight/days, which is always empty. But when I click the "Save test day" button in the day cycle editor, the file Default.xml in app_settings/windlight/days in Cool VL Viewer's installation folder seems to get updated. Or at least, I see its modification date changing…

Yes, that would be a bug... And indeed, day cycles are not properly handled in LL's code.

I changed it for next release so that it saves all settings to LL_PATH_USER_SETTINGS and tries to load them from both LL_PATH_USER_SETTINGS and then LL_PATH_APP_SETTINGS, in this order.

Hello Henri et al.,

I fear that whatever changes were made did break Environment settings. Sunrise / Midday / Sunset / Midnight and, especially annoying, Revert to region default are without function now. This also extends to the related LUA functionality. Reverting to .13 for now.

Love,
Lia

*sighs*

Now you can tell I do not use Windlight at all...

The problem is that I added filename characters escaping for safety, but the escaping code also escapes the "." in Defaults.xml, meaning the viewer attempts to load Defaults%2Exml instead.

I'll publish a fixed release later today...

Has this been fixed? The reason why I ask is because when I visit a region that has windlight settings, I do not see anything but the default sky and water. When I login and visit the same region with FS, I am able to see the different settings for the sky and water.

Geoff