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Interkarma
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Enhanced Sky

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Enhanced Sky

Description

Replaces low-resolution painted sky backgrounds with a dynamic, procedurally-generated sky dome.


Features
  • Smooth day/night transitions.
  • Sun, stars, and clouds move through the sky.
  • Both moons with lunar cycles.
  • Cloud cover and lighting matches current weather.
  • Highly compatible with other mods.
  • Reduces motion discomfort from classic sky movement.

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Gallery

Enhance Weather.jpg
Enhance Weather.jpg (679.28 KiB) Viewed 121297 times

Credits

Enhanced Sky was originally created by Lypyl and later rebuilt by Nystul for recent builds of Daggerfall Unity.

Note: Overcast blocking of sun flares and moons not implemented in v2.1.0.


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MrDowntempo
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Re: Enhanced Sky

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Might be difficult, but would be super cool to add bright stars that form lore friendly constellations.

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Re: Enhanced Sky

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After several nights traveling into the desert, it feels increasingly weird that stars do not have an apparent movement into the sky...
i know it's a game not an astronomy simulator, so if it takes too much effort or too much performance don't bother...
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Re: Enhanced Sky

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is there a plan to have the moons emit light? They seem very dark.
Remember always 'What would Julian Do?'.

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Re: Enhanced Sky

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Im glad this was moved to released, and that the screenshot compilation found its use :)

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Re: Enhanced Sky

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pango wrote: Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:26 pm After several nights traveling into the desert, it feels increasingly weird that stars do not have an apparent movement into the sky...
i know it's a game not an astronomy simulator, so if it takes too much effort or too much performance don't bother...
When your project is that good that people ask for the stars to move in the sky, you can pat yourself on the back @ DFU team!

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Re: Enhanced Sky

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The issue is finding lore accurate (or accurate enough) infos about Nim astronomy...
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Re: Enhanced Sky

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It seems that the dev version (0.7.0) broke Enhanced Sky mod, I get the classic sky instead...

Unrelated, but while I'm at it, the JSON mod manifest contains old thread URL as ContactInfo, maybe it should be updated to point to this very one?
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Re: Enhanced Sky

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pango wrote: Fri Dec 14, 2018 8:10 pm It seems that the dev version (0.7.0) broke Enhanced Sky mod, I get the classic sky instead...
confirmed, have a fix in the queue but not sure when I will package new mod version - this weekend is quite busy

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Re: Enhanced Sky

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Bisected down to

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commit 72dad3ff7285c0288c693c62acfecc21f44de07f
Author: TheLacus <TheLacus@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 14 16:21:19 2018 +0100

    ModSettings: Remove support for obsolete features
    
    Old settings files based on INI are now unsupported.
    Mod developers are invited to upgrade with the Mod Settings Editor from "Daggerfall Tools" > "Mod Settings".
    There is a button named "Import Legacy INI" which should help to provide a smooth transition.

:040000 040000 1ee6cf3eddb0b768113e71f30eceed247ac491ca 66dee3f4b4c8b6363ddf811e6340e4aa8ccaf1c4 M	Assets
Distant Terrain is also impacted, but I haven't checked if it comes from the same commit:

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Error (234): The type or namespace name `ImageEffects' does not exist in the namespace `UnityStandardAssets'. Are you missing an assembly reference?
Error (): 3(712,14): DistantTerrain.DistantTerrain.SetUpCameras()
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