Length of day (too short now) and moon cycle

[levente.lenoir]

Currently the day/night cycle is too fast, for me at least. I drive couple kms, starting at dawn and it gets dark. Can you make it longer? But best would be to make it adjustable IMO since everyone has different preferences and maybe I won't prefer short day in a game but yes in another and maybe I just want to chill drive and want to have 24 hr day. And I don't like the moon being a complemetner of the sun. I think it should be a different cyícle in its own right, for example day of week-meter or season cycle if/when it will be added and its shape could also indicate weather forecast.

[Genesz]

making day/night length adjustable is not too big challenge (so it will come), but behind the scenes the moon is the sun (just modified to look more like the moon), so currently I can't make it have its own cycle and shape, I don't have too much control over the sky.
Later I may be able to figure out a better method to do it, but currently that is less important I think

[levente.lenoir]

It's true that the moon is less important :D It was just a thought of me. What if you made them separate entities and not have the night sky a sun? I am just thinking out loud here, I don't know how Unity works. Although probably you tried. If so, forget I even spoke.

[Genesz]

the sky I'm currently using (default unity procedural sky shader) can only have that one sun and nothing else (I made the stars using particle system), but I want to make it better later :D

[=Levi4than=]

whats about the day/night lenght? any progress about this? or is there an option to change it in the game files? i would like to have IRL 24 hour or at least 12 hour

[Foxtrekker]

I think you have to balance the realism with the fun factor like most games do imo. If you had just a irl day that lasted 24 hours, you wouldn't get the chance to experience the day/night cycle and the fun involved like the challenge of night driving or fighting enemies at night etc because say you only play for an hour or 2 at a time. I would think you'd want go thru the day cycle at least a few times in a sitting to keep it interesting.

Same goes for hunger and thirst. Realistically you only need to eat and drink so much in a day, but then it wouldn't be as fun as say a 15 minute cycle for example. Then you have to balance that with the food and water spawn. Plus if you add in more thirst in the desert, that balances out because of cactus (which i forgot for a while this update) :)

I think the car gives you enough realism in that the speed and distance traveled is real, as well as how much fluids they use and how all the parts work. Then if/when we get car parts degrading that will add more to the challenge.