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Hi all, I just received an im with a question, and since I do not have a clue where to find these...I am asking for your help.
do you know where i can get some good eep day cycles? that was the question, please shoot some advice my way ? :)
do you know where i can get some good eep day cycles? that was the question, please shoot some advice my way ? :)
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Conversions of the old Windlight daycycles have been done by various people already. I've made the old Windlight-to-EEP boxes from Discovery Grid available in Santiago in the Kaufrausch Mega-Store (you'll land inside the store, and the boxes are on the same floor): https://opensimworld.com/hop/78061
As for realistic, hand-crafted daycycles, Jimmy Olsen has made a whole lot of them for various latitudes (!) and eight "seasons" (!) each. They can be found at his Light and Sound Museum: https://opensimworld.com/hop/84292
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As for realistic, hand-crafted daycycles, Jimmy Olsen has made a whole lot of them for various latitudes (!) and eight "seasons" (!) each. They can be found at his Light and Sound Museum: https://opensimworld.com/hop/84292
I especially like Jimmy's settings for "A Hazy Shade of Winter", "Hot Fun in the Summertime", and "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child". Other favorites: "Season of the Witch", "'Tis the Damn Season", and "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)." As a bonus, there is a song for each season setting! But seriously - eight "seasons"? These are EEP settings for which planet? :)
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Eight seasons: Winter, Winter-Spring, Spring, Spring-Summer, Summer, Summer-Autumn, Autumn, Autumn-Winter. A month and a half apart.
It's about where the Sun travels. Winter, for example, doesn't mean what a SL/OS veteran may expect, namely a somewhat wintery mood, but the Sun goes through the zenith and stands right above you at noon as it always does. Rather, it means e.g. you pick the daycycles for 40° northern latitude, and the Sun doesn't rise any higher than it does in real life in late January/early February at 40° northern latitude, and the day is as long as it normally is at 40° northern latitude.
So for a Christmas-themed sim, you might want to pick an autumn-winter daycycle that matches the latitude of wherever in the world your sim is supposed to be located. That will give you a low noon Sun, a short day, a long night, just like in real-life mid-December. Or, depending on the latitude, the Sun may actually not rise at all.
Easter sim: spring. Halloween sim: autumn.
It's eight because that's a compromise between having nothing between the solstices and equinoxes and having to calculate and manually build even more daycycles (e.g. twelve if there shall be one for each month).
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It's about where the Sun travels. Winter, for example, doesn't mean what a SL/OS veteran may expect, namely a somewhat wintery mood, but the Sun goes through the zenith and stands right above you at noon as it always does. Rather, it means e.g. you pick the daycycles for 40° northern latitude, and the Sun doesn't rise any higher than it does in real life in late January/early February at 40° northern latitude, and the day is as long as it normally is at 40° northern latitude.
So for a Christmas-themed sim, you might want to pick an autumn-winter daycycle that matches the latitude of wherever in the world your sim is supposed to be located. That will give you a low noon Sun, a short day, a long night, just like in real-life mid-December. Or, depending on the latitude, the Sun may actually not rise at all.
Easter sim: spring. Halloween sim: autumn.
It's eight because that's a compromise between having nothing between the solstices and equinoxes and having to calculate and manually build even more daycycles (e.g. twelve if there shall be one for each month).
