9AM, it's still very dark in the AH World.

[Traveler]

I was just in the main arena, it's 9:AM by the clock but with no cloud cover, it's way to dark for 9AM. Or is this going to be the way it is?   

[Bizman]

It's realistic. It's dark all day unless the sky is clear in which case there's light for a couple of hours. And it's getting even darker until next Wednesday.

[nooby52]

It's realistic. It's dark all day unless the sky is clear in which case there's light for a couple of hours. And it's getting even darker until next Wednesday.

 

Everything in proper perspective.

[SWrokit]

Try living in central Alaska........one gets used to it 

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Rokit

[bustr]

Do enough offline testing and you will notice the moon follows the continental US real moon phases. And the sun light strength and duration seems to also. Offline and in the terrain editor I'm constantly having to rest time to noon to get the most light on the subject.

[lunatic1]

in real life-it may be 9am where u are-but 9pm some where else-- in game day last longer than night

[Traveler]

in real life-it may be 9am where u are-but 9pm some where else-- in game day last longer than night

that was according to the game clock, not my time, but the game time was 9AM with no cloud cover. 

[Traveler]

Try living in central Alaska........one gets used to it 

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Rokit

Get real, I'm talking about the game world of AH, it's always been very gloomy but with AH3 in this arena and map it is very dark for a game time of 9AM with no cloud cover.

[Traveler]

It's realistic. It's dark all day unless the sky is clear in which case there's light for a couple of hours. And it's getting even darker until next Wednesday.

I'm talking about the game time clock of 9AM with no cloud cover and it's still very dark.  It's built into the map as I understand it.  AH world have always been on the dark side of things but this map appears to me to be very dark.  So to me it's anything but realistic.  With no cloud cover at 9AM it's pretty bright. 

[ImADot]

With AH3, a terrain can be built with Lat/Long coordinates. Coupled with setting the month/day/year in arena settings, the Sun, Moon and star positions should be pretty accurate.

Not saying that this explains what you're describing, but could be a contributing factor.

[49ZERO]

I understand night time and it does not last long. You might want to consider that maybe the battle could be in the artic where night can be at 9am. Its very close to winter time in America so the days are shorter.

[Traveler]

I understand night time and it does not last long. You might want to consider that maybe the battle could be in the artic where night can be at 9am. Its very close to winter time in America so the days are shorter.

You are so totally off the mark.  I am not describing night time, I said for the map time of 9AM it was not as bright as I"ve seen other maps at 9AM even with cloud cover.

[Vulcan]

Do enough offline testing and you will notice the moon follows the continental US real moon phases. And the sun light strength and duration seems to also. Offline and in the terrain editor I'm constantly having to rest time to noon to get the most light on the subject.

That makes sense, we were flying over the Solomons in FSO - I pointed out the sun was sitting too low and in the Southern sky (should be high slightly north in the sky).

[hitech]

The default center of the terrain longitude/latitude is our office. This setting can be set per terrain in the terrain editor.

The date defaults to the current date and can be set to any real date via dot commands.

HiTech

[caldera]

It does seem too dark in AH3, when the sun is still well above the horizon.