Your Feature Request / Idea
Day and Night Cycle
So we see this one suggested quite a lot, I dont think it's the easiest thing but then I'm also not familiar with the engine you're working on and it's limitations so I'll suggest away and you decide if it's possible if the community agrees.
While i love that we were given the ability to change the time of day in the settings, it's a bit clunky to go there and do that manually and also highlights how important a change in lighting such as this can really be. It can make your park look entirely different, giving it a very important breath of fresh air once in a while, as well as making the world itself feel dynamic. To an extent even JPOG had this, although they kindof bundled it in their weather types changing the lighting a lot, like how the heatwave would look like your Dusk, or the Heavy Storm almost like a night.
I suggest you create an additional time of day - Dawn, and cycle these. Day would be the longest as it is the standard and we dont want the switches to happen too often. Dawn and Dusk should be the shortest, naturally and the transitions should be fairly gradual, not fast as that would be jarring, but i don't think we'll need them to be fancy, with changing skyboxes and the moon moving. If you do want to go the extra mile you could make the sun and moon move and that would affect shadows, it WOULD really add a lot of weight to this, but i understand that sometimes we have to make concessions, so only if you see it as possible.
I do not think this should force dinos to sleep during the night, it might introduce too many issues, but i do think a natural way to handle it is if most non-nocturnal dinos get tired faster in the night time. If you ever add something like the Troodon, they are nighttime predators and would be very much the reverse of that.
Further, this feature could be an optional toggle in the settings and if toggled off, we can just select the time of day as we can now. If this is the case, the time of day chosen will not affect dinosaur behavior, if that is implemented.
Please remember to rate how much you like these ideas as the forum rules suggest, it is an important tool for the devs to know what the community wants and how much! Thank you!
Day and Night Cycle
So we see this one suggested quite a lot, I dont think it's the easiest thing but then I'm also not familiar with the engine you're working on and it's limitations so I'll suggest away and you decide if it's possible if the community agrees.
While i love that we were given the ability to change the time of day in the settings, it's a bit clunky to go there and do that manually and also highlights how important a change in lighting such as this can really be. It can make your park look entirely different, giving it a very important breath of fresh air once in a while, as well as making the world itself feel dynamic. To an extent even JPOG had this, although they kindof bundled it in their weather types changing the lighting a lot, like how the heatwave would look like your Dusk, or the Heavy Storm almost like a night.
I suggest you create an additional time of day - Dawn, and cycle these. Day would be the longest as it is the standard and we dont want the switches to happen too often. Dawn and Dusk should be the shortest, naturally and the transitions should be fairly gradual, not fast as that would be jarring, but i don't think we'll need them to be fancy, with changing skyboxes and the moon moving. If you do want to go the extra mile you could make the sun and moon move and that would affect shadows, it WOULD really add a lot of weight to this, but i understand that sometimes we have to make concessions, so only if you see it as possible.
I do not think this should force dinos to sleep during the night, it might introduce too many issues, but i do think a natural way to handle it is if most non-nocturnal dinos get tired faster in the night time. If you ever add something like the Troodon, they are nighttime predators and would be very much the reverse of that.
Further, this feature could be an optional toggle in the settings and if toggled off, we can just select the time of day as we can now. If this is the case, the time of day chosen will not affect dinosaur behavior, if that is implemented.
Please remember to rate how much you like these ideas as the forum rules suggest, it is an important tool for the devs to know what the community wants and how much! Thank you!
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