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Sunrise-EXPERIMENTAL

EXPERIMENTAL

This is a Sunrise mod that I am testing out. The Skybox textures are 4k so there may be some performance hit, it works fine on my end, but I have no idea what your system specs may be.

The Light direction is completely different than the default game and the shadows are lined up as much as possible, however, while longer shadows (than this mod) can be implemented, something strange happens when zoomed in, ... they disappear, why? IDK, that is why this is an EXPERIMENTAL Skybox mod.

Also, low angle shadows tend to look, .. well, not very good. Let me know what you think.

Fog and water colors are also changed, as is the light level, ... it is dawn and not very bright. I don't think you want to play through a 100 years at this level (remember what your mother told you about reading in the dark?) so, other than that it can be good for mood screenshots of your layout.

Constructive suggestions are welcome, encouraged even. "I don't like it." tells me nothing other than you have a limited vocabulary. As for whether or not you download and test it, I do not really care about the "items stats" on this as it will get replaced with a later final version using the games native 2k HDR texture resolution.

Due to the experimental nature of this mod, there are no permissions given, that means do not even ask to upload this anywhere.
Attribution: NoEmotionHDRs by Peter Sanitra is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Original image from http://noemotionhdrs.net "it`s free to download and licenced under Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/"

PLEASE STOP ASKING for a Day-Night Cycle, it is just not possible due to the way the game code is written, ie, it is IMPOSSIBLE. You would be better off extracting blood from a stone.

Simply put, the game uses a static skybox, it is not animated, is does not move or do anything. It is simply a large box that surrounds the map with static HDR images pasted on it's interior surfaces to give the appearances of a sky, hence the term "skybox". If you tried to paste an animated image type (.flc, .gif, etc.) into what the game thinks is a static .HDR image, the game will just crash.

The game uses an accelerated time scale, it has no "hours" or "minutes", just "days", "months", and "years" so there is no logical way to tie an animated skybox into it.

The game's models have no light emitters nor timers for light emitters, therefor night would just be dark, everywhere, ... and not very good looking. There is a "Night Mod" in the Workshop if you want to test this.

Unless the developers rewrite the game engine code for a Day-Night skybox, it can never, ever be done by creating or modifying .lua and .blob files.