American Truck Simulator

American Truck Simulator

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Very short nights / "polar day"
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Very short nights / "polar day"

Description
Compatibility
1.49 and ProMods Canada 1.2.5a

Who is it for?
Those who don't like night driving, but enjoy sunrise and sunset.

You'll get very short nights in the South. Nights won't get totally dark there. At the same time, up North, you won't even get intense sunsets.

What is it not?
This is not a realistic simulation of polar day. Actually, the game already does that. You might even want to disable this mod if you go further to the North with ProMods Canada.

How does it work?
The position of the sun is calculated in the game. The amount of daylight varies according to your position. During summer, further up North you get a lot more daylight, and there's even "polar day" above ≈67°N, where the sun never really sets. Even at places where the sun sinks a little below the horizon, we don't get pitch black nights.

This mod pushes our map to the North to make our days longer. It also resets the day in the year to summer solstice.

How is it related to JourPolaire?
I took the idea from a mod called JourPolaire, but unfortunately I couldn't make complete sense of the values in it. So I did some research, and applied the idea on my own.

Conflicts
  • affects the day in the year as some weather mods do, especially season mods
  • can conflict with custom map backgrounds

Credits
  • SCS for the realistic (or good-enough?) implementation of the calculation of the position of the sun
  • ProMods forum member Grattanus who shared a similar mod called JourPolaire there[promods.net], and the other members who dug it up, and brought it to my attention
  • Piva, who he says he got the inspiration from
50 Comments
corsini671 13 Nov, 2024 @ 11:49pm 
Can you please update this mod please to the new version 1.52 please 🙏
Dietatietor 5 Oct, 2024 @ 10:34pm 
Working for me just fine on 1.51. Nights are now practically evenings. Thanks.
Sininside 7 Jun, 2024 @ 12:08pm 
Didn't work for me. My game wouldn't even load, just the "black screen of death". Which forced me to exit the game by having to log out of Windows 10. I do not recommend this mod.
keluvu 6 Jun, 2024 @ 8:24am 
Is anyone else noticing that now the horizon appears and disappears almost once a second?

I have verified that deactivating the mod does not happen. It affects all states. It doesn't happen permanently. I would say it happens during sunrise. Thank you.
dafm6ets 17 May, 2024 @ 2:01pm 
good to know will give it another go now we are not in beta :steamthumbsup:
keluvu 17 May, 2024 @ 6:21am 
It runs good on 1.50, in case someone need to know!
dafm6ets 11 Apr, 2024 @ 1:14pm 
does not work with promods but after saying that my promods have stopped working on the final 1.49 update.........go figure:steamfacepalm:
s_r_w 31 Mar, 2024 @ 2:41pm 
love it - this is a must 4 streamers - so viewers don't have to watch night driving.:steamthumbsup:
Tizzy Tom 21 Jan, 2024 @ 10:53am 
where should i put this in the mod order? it crashes the game as soon as i hit "continue game" no matter where i put it. could it be because im using an older version of promods?
dafm6ets 30 Dec, 2023 @ 6:19am 
many thanks