It would be nice if the entire HUD color palette could dynamically change to fit background color.

Cool mod, though!

beautiful mod! makes the landscape so much more alive. thank you!

@dougdangles My game had a 50/50 shot on crashing upon exit before I downloaded my first mod, so it's seemingly just a problem with how it acts on windows.

I found that after a longer play session, the game will crash and I think I narrowed it down to this mod as I only had a limited number of mods to play with. It's heartbreaking because I love this mod. Also, my game never crashed on exit until this mod and now even after removal and reinstall, it now still crashes on exit. Possibly not related and just confirmation bias.

Sounds like crash on shutdown is a wider issue that I probably can't fix in DBC. Will fix the TurnsPerDay warning the next time I have to do an update - for now it should be harmless.

The game exits cleanly for me on Linux.

As kernalmethod pointed out it seems to be a windows issue.

FYI (because I noticed this mod is also getting comments about this issue): the “crash on exit” bug is something that appears to be occurring across all Harmony mods upon exiting the game on Windows. I have filed a bug report in connection with this issue:

https://bitbucket.org/bbucklew/cavesofqud-public-issue-tracker/issues/13473/game-consistently-crashes-with-minimal

I think that this bug is unlikely to corrupt a save but not impossible. The crash almost certainly would need to occur elsewhere during the course of a game; crashing on exit is unlikely to have any real negative impact.

Bumping Tassie Tiger's comment about the game crashing on exit- I've grown used to it that it's kind of part of the game's charm at this point but a fix would be appreciated anyways- I worry that the game crashing even on close could corrupt a save.

Same problem as @Tassie Tiger, an update would be appreciated, cheers

good to know it's not just me

I did just find this line spammed a few times in player.log, not sure if it's what is causing crash on exit but maybe worth a look anyway

MODWARN [Dynamic Background Color] - <...>\steamapps\workshop\content\333640\2281679090\HZDynBack.cs(193,33): warning CS0618: 'Calendar.turnsPerDay' is obsolete: 'Use TurnsPerDay'

I have the same issue as @Tassie Tiger, upon exit unity crash reporter runs. Otherwise no issues that I can see.

The mod seems to work fine except the game crashes on exit since installing this mod. It's not a big deal but thought I would let you know

Nice, thanks for the report!

for anyone who's curious, this seems to work fine with the 1.0 release! will mention if I have any issues, but so far it's been smooth

ok thank you!

@Kinasin: Yes, I just tested with the latest release version and it still works for me. I did have to re-approve all of my enabled mods via the in-game mod configuration menu though.

so this is works fine with molting?

@Melt thanks for the heads up. Will fix it when I make other changes, or when it breaks - whichever comes first.

I found this line in my log.

MODWARN [Dynamic Background Color] - <...>\steamapps\workshop\content\333640\2281679090\HZDynBack.cs(193,33): warning CS0618: 'Calendar.turnsPerDay' is obsolete: 'Use TurnsPerDay'

I think this broke my background color. Now it's just black all the time and changing things in Display.txt does nothing.

Yes it works in spring molting beta, you just need to to activate mode in main menu...

This still work for spring molting?

Easily my favorite Qud mod. And I second @Hivemind - it's a wonder to me that it's not in the base game after all this time.

@crypticbacon: I checked with the devs, and yeah unfortunately Harmony mods are currently not working on M1/M2 Macs.

This doesn't seem to work for me. I'm playing on an M2 Macbook Air so that could have something to do with it, but I'm really not sure how, or even if, I can troubleshoot this issue :(

All things considered, the zone directly north of the spindle and the exterior north part of the spindle should probably always be in the shadows, a permanent above-ground"eclipse" area. This is assuming the sun is always to the south...

Seriously. I can't imagine playing without this or HunterZ's other mods, love them!

Really beautiful mod. Adds so much atmosphere that it's a surprise this hasn't been stolen into the base game.

Reinstated all previous hacks for enforcing background color, which appears to fix the menu issues. So much for simplifying! It seems the game code caches the default background color everywhere, with the (normally true) assumption that it won't change during the game.

@flemingluiz thanks for the screenshot. I'll try to take a look over the next few days. I probably got a bit overzealous in simplifying my code, and need to reinstate some of the hacks that got removed.

im having problems with items on trade,inventory screen and some tiles seem to not be transparent with the background color https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3091233841

Fix released! HZDynBack did some pretty goofy things to get the background color to (un)stick, and in the new game version I found a much simpler approach that seems to work.

Just a headsup, Caves of Qud version Beta Build 2.0.206.3, Creatures of the 7th Plague release/update

MODERROR [Dynamic Background Color] - Exception applying harmony patches: HarmonyLib.HarmonyException: Patching exception in method null ---> System.ArgumentException: Undefined target method for patch method static System.Boolean HunterZ.HZDynBack.PatchZoneRender::Prefix()
at HarmonyLib.PatchClassProcessor.PatchWithAttributes (System.Reflection.MethodBase& lastOriginal) [0x00047] in <0020ee40255b4dc7a0eb8b2a76225b38>:0
at HarmonyLib.PatchClassProcessor.Patch () [0x00068] in <0020ee40255b4dc7a0eb8b2a76225b38>:0

One of my favorite mods... Thanks for evertything!

No, I don't believe the game bothers with modeling moon phases (they've never really even verified if this Earth in the year 19999 or not), so probably easiest to peg each phase 1 week long or something equally as lazy. Only 3 "phases" would be necessary as a minimum, since waxing and waning would probably look the same.

I guess the bigger issue is how it would effect NPC pathing in differing light levels, but the game already handles that anyways... so really the only "issue" is whether a full moon lights an entire map but with reduced speed, or technically generates light radii for every NPC on a map (since light radii generate 2 vision levels). Maybe the entire map is shown in the larger radius format? Up to you.

Just thought it would be an interesting differentiation between darkness on the surface (which is basically night) and darkness underground (which is everywhere all at once except inside light radii).

@zicraftian: Thanks!
@Earthshaker: As in make the nights brighter when the moon is fuller? Are moon phases something modeled by the game?
@Gideon: That might indeed be cool, but sounds like something that might work better as a separate mod.

cannot play without this one!

Any chance of adding moon phases during surface nights?

Hey, love the mod. Like really love it. But, it would be taken to the next level if you could add water animations or sprites to simulate rain…… you could also add clouds that obscure the area and make it so rain lowers to your perception just like dawn/dusk does. Either way love the mod

Doesn't seem to be working for me either, but it might be because I'm using it on a preexisting save. Not on mac though.

@HunterZ might be related to me being on a mac, but still doesn't work with all mods disabled except it. Works outside of the beta and gives no errors in the beta but doesnt work. I have the problem with a few other mods and will keep investigating--wish I could talk to folks in the discord about it but alas.

@Meaningoflife42: It's working for me in beta 2.0.204.45. Try disabling other mods maybe?

Seems to be broken for whatever in the newest Beta. Can anyone confirm, or does anyone know a fix?

@Gokudera just tested similar settings, and I still see the hues change but they are more subdued. The higher contrast also means that you will probably not see the background getting darker as you descend underground.

Do I need specific Brightness/Contrast settings to make it work? Seems like only contrast changes (screen gets darker during some hours) but the color doesn't really change. I tried fiddling with Contrast/Brightness sliders but they don't change the color. By default I use Contrast around 70% Brightness at around 60%.

Someone posted on my profile instead of here for some reason to ask if I could upload my mods somewhere else for non-Steam users. My mods are already on Github at https://github.com/HunterZ/qudmods

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many thanks friend!!

@Lamb & @helado: Thanks for the heads-up. I've pushed an update that removes the ResolveType patch. Let me know if it helps. It should no longer be needed anyway, as it was just a short-term kludge to keep people's saves from breaking several releases ago.

it looks like the compatibility issue is because of this mod's patch of ResolveType. this most likely affects other mods too. at least one of the devs is on it trying to figure out why it breaks it despite looking innocuous, but in the meantime it's probably for the best if it's removed

hey i really enjoy this mod, and published one of my own very recently (nightmare treat). i'm currently running into some compatibility issues with my mod and yours, so reaching out in case you want to take a look at what's happening!