Visuals & Graphics Dynamic Time of Day

[namakemono]

Not just a dynamic_tod_enable function.

Now I am trying to improve the appearance of morning and evening, as well as solve several problems that appear over time.
In any case, the mod will be released "as is" soon.

 

[Saint_of_the_Barrio]

Been hoping for this one for some time now, good to see it happen.
Now all we need is a similar mod for SRTT and we'll be all set.

 

[reina3]

Great job! Must be a painful amount of weather files to be loaded in...

 

[Spadita]

Looks amazing, hope you do it for srtt aswell

 

[namakemono]

This will work in SRTT, but requires the Dynamic Time of Day from the Zolika's Menu.

In SRTT SRIV and SRGOOH, the tod is frozen. Only the sriv_legacy has a native function for activating the dynamic tod (dynamic_tod_enable). For SRTT there is only in Zolika's Menu.
The mod will work without asi or exe modifications only in sriv_legacy.

 

[Clippy95]

Actually the Semi_dynamic_tod and Dynamic_tod are in all of the games even re-releases, it was just a debug path for dynamic time of day

 

[Chris Rivera]

Bruh this mod is something i have been waiting for since wow a little more than a decade i never knew why Volition stop making actual Dynamic Time of Day the only game that ever had it was SR1 SR2 and SR Reboot

SRTT/SRTTR
SRIV
SRGOOH

Never had it which is weird maybe it became difficult for them or something either way Bro if your Bling Menu is so awesome this one is gonna be a banger once is release your doing some very awesome mods Bro

 

[namakemono]

Bruh this mod is something i have been waiting for since wow a little more than a decade i never knew why Volition stop making actual Dynamic Time of Day the only game that ever had it was SR1 SR2 and SR Reboot

It seems to me that Volition simply didn't have time to finish the dynamic tod feature. As far as I know, they took the SR2 engine and rewrote some parts to bring it up to modern standards.

What I noticed while experimenting with dynamic time of day in sriv:

There's no sun in the sky. It's simply an "orbital object" whose position is tied to the time of day and doesn't depend on the actual position of the sunlight source. Because of this, sunrise/sunset occurs earlier/later than the sunlight source.

When streetlights are turned on, the sun's shadows disappear, making the transition from day to night look bad.

Reflections sometimes flicker and go crazy.