Dynamic time of day

Simplex

Once you finish the story, you're left freerunning in the city with dynamic day/night cycle. But it seems that the cycle keeps changing only when you run. You can see that from the shadows - when you stand still, shadows are still and when you move, they move with you. I really have no clue what was the idea behind it but it certainly ruined my long time dream to make a day/night time lapse video of every district. Sadface.

Teto

Oh, I'm pretty sure of that: If you have a cycle, and you don't run, the shadows would change drastically (because calculation would be done every minute for a 10mn change in reality), very noticeable and the effect would be ugly. If you are running, you can't notice the shadows' changes... Cheap trick I agree.

RaspicaBlueGaming

Teto wrote: »

Oh, I'm pretty sure of that: If you have a cycle, and you don't run, the shadows would change drastically (because calculation would be done every minute for a 10mn change in reality), very noticeable and the effect would be ugly. If you are running, you can't notice the shadows' changes... Cheap trick I agree.

What would be better in a day/night cycle is to make the sun lower in the sky, then increase the length of daytime and nightttime while decreasing the length of dawn/dusk. Not by much, of course. Now, I think we have less noticeable shadow changes overall! Of course, my suggestion is more of a hotfix than a real solution.