Effect: Transparent floor showing background only

Placing a Slow Field on a "Dingy 2" floor adds a punchthrough effect showing only the grey background colour.

This alone is nothing spectacular, however if someone would know how to edit the background colour, that would make me very very happy!
I believe the background colour is also responsible for the reflective/shiny effect on many floor, wall and ceiling textures, so changing that would probably add further options.

If there's no way to change the grey BG colour ...
Well, I need pitch black floor, anyone know how it's done?
(Not looking for "all sliders to black on a dark texture")

Can't you float the slow field? Put a normal Safe down, then float the Slow Field ontop of it, I think you can see the floor colour then. Also makes a good swimming pool , if your on defiant send me a message @Bruce Lightning and we can see each others bases, Im always keen for ideas!

Hi Bruce thanks for the fast reply!

Yes, it's possible to float the Slow Field which adds a nice distortion to anything beneath it and the borders of raised floor next to it, though the "Dingy 2" floor stays transparent.
And that's what I want and actually further exploit this effect.

The grey field you see on the linked picture is the grey "lightbox" that works as the background for the base editor.
This is normally not visible when you enter a base in normal game mode.

What I want to accomplish is to change the colour of the lightbox into black.


I'm building on Union, my test base is on Defiant though.
When my current base is done (or 99% done lol), I'll let you know and probably post pictures and some ideas here as well.
It's a huge plot, already 5 days into it and still scrapping and rebuilding everything, probably in 2 or 3 weeks it's open for public lol