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Realistic Sun Path

This feature adjusts the sun's movement to be more realistic.

It raises and sets based on real-world values. In vanilla S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the sun rises about 15 degrees east-to-south and sets at around the same on the west side (still southwest), which doesn't make sense for the "Summer Time" day length in the game. In reality, it would rise towards about ~20 degrees east-to-north and set at around the same, west-to-north.

Additionally, the angle the sun passes over the sky was very shallow. I've also changed this so the sun's trajectory follows real-world values, reaching its highest point at around 1 PM at ~55 degrees over the horizon. During the summer, your shadow should be smaller than your actual height (around 75%), so I used that as a reference as well.

Here is how I calculated it (this might be an older picture with slightly different values):