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From the announcement;
In Ravenloft you will have the chance to travel to Demiplane of Dread with some special assistance from the Vistani. Your mission to rid the land of Barovia of its curse will lead you to encounters with all manner of horrors and creatures, including a new Monster Hunt mechanic! Night and Day will also play a meaningful part in your adventures, much like this cycle does to the creatures of this land.
So, it sounds like they'll have a day/night cycle. Anyone have any idea how it works, and if it can be retrofit to Risa?
In Ravenloft you will have the chance to travel to Demiplane of Dread with some special assistance from the Vistani. Your mission to rid the land of Barovia of its curse will lead you to encounters with all manner of horrors and creatures, including a new Monster Hunt mechanic! Night and Day will also play a meaningful part in your adventures, much like this cycle does to the creatures of this land.
So, it sounds like they'll have a day/night cycle. Anyone have any idea how it works, and if it can be retrofit to Risa?
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Solar cycles only matter in games where it's the means of timekeeping, i.e. a fantasy game.
I wish they'd bring it back, it made sense on planets... better yet, put it on all planets and tie it the computers clock.
In the time before, when everything was magical, you could watch Risa's majestic suns set. Then, if you were lucky, you could watch fireworks as Klingon and Trill lovers argued.
Now, things just happen, and it's not as nice.
On the third hand (Tzenkethi have four of them, just bear with me here), the length of a "solar cycle" certainly varies from world to world. Even here in Sol system, Earth's day is about 24 hours; a Martian sol is about 40 minutes longer; a day on Venus, if you could see the Sun through the sulfur-dioxide cloud cover, is very nearly 117 Earth days (longer than a local year!). Defining "day" can get even trickier on planets of multiple-star systems; 40 Eridani B and C, for instance, would make night on Vulcan a moot point for several months out of their year, as in the proper point of their orbit around 40 Eridani A they would illuminate Vulcan's night side. Given differing rotational velocities, and the issues caused by binary or trinary systems (or worse - NASA's Kepler mission located one world in a five-star system!), how exactly would a "solar cycle" be defined?
I'd argue that the lighting is not better as it makes three of my toons look green. And none of them are alien so they're not supposed to have a green tint. I'd happily get rid of this "better light" to have correct skin color and day/night cycle back.
Not surprised they figured out how to do Day and Night.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin
Yeah, the new lighting system is great for environments, but doesn't work well with characters about 70% of the time...
Yes. AGAIN... neutered by Lighting 2.0.
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Let us explore it... together. Each man hides a secret pain. It must be exposed and reckoned with. It must be dragged from the darkness and forced into the light. Share your pain. Share your pain with me... and gain strength from the sharing.
yep, and environments as well