Longer day length

[Demian]

Currently the maximum day length is 300 seconds which is 5 minutes. You can make the day longer through Mission Editor but I would much rather use the Environment Editor and .atmosphere files. Is there any reason why the day length is clamped to such a low value? I would much prefer a 7200 second (2h) day.

Alternatively is there a way to go around this limit by changing the day length value through the Mission Editor by using a script that works with the .atmosphere files?

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[Christopher P.]

Yeah I've been wanting this to make one minute in real life, one second in game based on day length.

[MrLoL²]

Badspot said on his server, and on topic that we could change length to 24 hours in seconds.

Apparently, that feature got removed.

[Ben Grapevine]

Actually you can do a workaround (at least I can):

I set the day cycle to "7000" and then it glitches to 700 seconds
I set the day cycle to "4200" and then it glitches to 420 seconds

[Megaguy2]

If you input 10000000 or some huge number it actually sets it so it's on 24 hours, I think.
Ben grapevine is correct. For some dumb reason it deletes a digit so if you set it to 420 it actually ends up just being 42. but if you sent it to 4200 it is 420.

[Treynolds416]

Um, 24 hours is 86400 seconds, which is the max for day length. I don't know why you're only getting 300 seconds

[Awdax]

Yeah I don't get this either. The Environmental Editor allows you to change the day length already. I don't know where you're getting the Mission Editor thing from. Like Trynolds said, 86400 is the maximum setting, not 300. It's 300 by default but you can easily increase it.

[Demian]

Um, 24 hours is 86400 seconds, which is the max for day length. I don't know why you're only getting 300 seconds

Making the value anything larger than 300 resets it back to 300 and changing the value in the .atmosphere file does the same thing.

Edit: Odd. The GUI method works now, script doesn't. Does anyone see anything wrong with this?

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$Sky::dayCycleEnabled 1
$Sky::DayLength 3600
$Sky::DayCycleFile Add-Ons/DayCycle_SpectrumSphere/spectrumsphere.daycycle

[Awdax]

I think this is a bug Badspot mentioned he is trying to fix.

Enter the value and instead of hitting "Apply" hit the Enter key. If it still doesn't work I think this is a bug, because it works fine for me and others.

[Demian]

I think this is a bug Badspot mentioned he is trying to fix.

Enter the value and instead of hitting "Apply" hit the Enter key. If it still doesn't work I think this is a bug, because it works fine for me and others.

I know of that bug and this isn't the case. The GUI works now oddly enough. I still need the script to work though.