Day cycles and weather

I would want to test a new script adding day and night cycles aswell as different weather effects on cityscapes.

There are two possible options.

1. The cycle is purely bound to the players local time. If you play in the evening or night the game will also show cities at night. If you play at daytime cities will render the daytime scenes. Advantage is immersion. Disadvantage is that might not see settings because you always play at a certain time.
2. Same as above but having 3 ingame day cycles per real day. Advantage is that you can experience more different settings. Disadvantage is that it is no longer directly bound to your local time.

Opinions please.

but that does not solve any of the disadvantages

Quote from Freibeuter

Fummele nicht zu viel herum, sonst hängt das Spiel wieder in den Seilen.

Ich erinnere an die Abstürze.

Gruß

Ach da haben wir doch schon ganz andere Sachen versaut.

the rain will be finer in the final version

Ok the test version got released.

It only changes Manhattan so far.

I decided to release option 2 for test purposes since the faster cycle allows to test the the different weather states easier. This easily can be changed to option 1 later on.

There are 8 different settings which currently cycle through every 8 hours. Day/Night cycle including sunset. Clear sky, cloudy, rainy and thunder.

In theory it should be possible to change windows time setting to test all settings without waiting.

any issues with this test release?

Während der cutscenes ist der Regen noch ein Problem. Dafür muss ich noch eine Lösung finden.