option for night in control panel

[McChicken]

again another feature that seems to be gone for no reason at all. can we not set the control panel to trigger night time on coasters? ive downloaded a dome from the workshop which was built from small chimney like pieces but there is zero darkness inside the dome. so i wanted to trigger night time on the coaster like we always did for darkrides in planco 1 and dont seem to find that option. another base feature which has been removed without any plausable reason at all. did anyone even teste this game for more than just 2-3 hours or what is going on at frontier?

[grampers62]

It seems darkness inside buildings is limited to specific graphics solutions, those that say they support some amount of ray tracing.

[McChicken]

Originally posted by grampers62:

It seems darkness inside buildings is limited to specific graphics solutions, those that say they support some amount of ray tracing.

sorry maybe i should have said that in my first post, i have a 4090. i have darkness inside buildings, i think its the scenery piece that was used to create that dome doesnt have the same "characteristics" as for example walls and roofs. so i end up with a dome thats simply just shadowy inside but not even close to complete darkness.
this issue has nothing to do with my gpu or my raytracing settings bro :)

[grampers62]

Yeah, some pieces do not have the light blocking flag. It seems to be from what I gather mostly just walls and rocks. Would be good if someone could go through and make a list of what does block light.
I'm still on an old 1080 gtx so I do not have the options for room darkening. But there is still an amount of shading that occurs for light blocking instead of darkening.

[funker]

You can change the time to nighttime in sandbox witthout any problems.

[McChicken]

Originally posted by funker:

You can change the time to nighttime in sandbox witthout any problems.

maybe i didnt describe it good enough. i am talking about the "show" console that you can place down and link stuff to. for example in planco 1 you could place that console, set it to change time to 00:00 and then let it get triggered my the coaster. that was the only way to make "darkrides" actually dark in planco 1. this feature isnt there anymore in planco 2. the console is but the option to change time isnt there anymore. so basically i have zero chances on making my dark ride dark because id need to replace all the 4k pieces with different piece or create a second layer made of walls. absolutely stupid that they didnt think about this when advertising "endless creativity"...

[grampers62]

Yeah, a lot of what we want to have in the sequencer is missing.
And to think... One of their deep dives talked about how much they improved it. o.0?

[funker]

We are getting fireworks in the next update on thursday. Maybe you get the desired function with it. Fireworks only make sense at night.

[McChicken]

Originally posted by funker:

We are getting fireworks in the next update on thursday. Maybe you get the desired function with it. Fireworks only make sense at night.

Originally posted by funker:

We are getting fireworks in the next update on thursday. Maybe you get the desired function with it. Fireworks only make sense at night.

it would generally make a lot of sense to add that feature like in planco 1. i cant imagine how people without raytracing are currently doing dark rides, they have to manually set time to night each time before riding one? sounds very tedious. lets hope and see on thursday :)