Dark ride mode

[Joebenz]

Just thought of something that could potentially be awesome.
How about adding a toggle box for every scenery in game that says "Dark Ride mode" or something. And when you tick that box, what would happen is that scenery piece will no longer be affected by the exterior lights/the sunlight.
In other words objects with that mode activated will act as if it is constantly night time or underground. the only lights that can affect these would be artificial lights like spotlights etc...

So you create an entire enclosure with all these scenery and buildings in Dark ride mode with a few spotlights and voila you have a perfectly working Darkride.
This toggle box would be available for every scenery and pre built buildings even custom downloaded ones.

The same would apply to tracked rides and coasters: you select a track piece and tick the "Dark ride mode" box and the track will be pitch black and whenever the cars or trains will roll on it, it will act as if it's nightime.

I think this would not only be super awesome but also it looks like it could be very simple to implement.

What ya think?

 

[ChrisDavid]

This is a great idea. It’d be a much better way of building dark rides. I had a similar idea of building dark rides in a more authentic way by having a placeable box, and everything within that box is unlit by exterior/natural lighting, and is effectively pitch black inside. There could be multiple prefab sizes that can be placed. And various other conditions could be applied to these boxes so each have a unique effect, like smoke/steam in the air. Or music that can only really be heard inside the box.

It seems there’d be lots of ways of doing it more authentically than the daylight trigger.

 

[RandyChimp]

Or just a unique wallset that is called "Dark Ride Exterior". It acts like terrain and blocks light from outside. Basically just simple 4x4 walls with different looks to maybe fit the area a bit more with flat roof pieces, all of which do the same thing.

Desperately need this in the game, covering every haunted house I make with a mountain makes things difficult.

 

[Robert K]

There is a mode that makes it dark when you ride dark rides.

 

[Fisherman1]

I love this idea! So basically night but with the moon turned off too.

 

[CedarFairFanBoy]

VEKOMA MADHOUSE!

 

[Joebenz]

I love this idea! So basically night but with the moon turned off too.

Yep. Or making a special enclosure that acts like a cave, that could work too. It works ingame for caves so why not for some walls and ceilings?