Very short nights / "polar day" – Southern Europe
1.49 and ProMods 2.68
Those who don’t like night driving, but enjoy sunrise and sunset.
You’ll get very short nights in e.g. Spain, or Turkey. Nights won’t get totally dark there. At the same time, in central Europe, you won’t even get intense sunsets (see the Central Europe edition).
This is not a realistic simulation of polar day. Actually, the game already does that. You might even want to disable this mod in Scandinavia or further to the North.
- ETS2, Central Europe
- ETS2, Southern Europe (this)
- ATS
The position of the sun is calculated in the game. The amount of daylight varies according to your position. During summer, further up North you get a lot more daylight, and there’s even "polar day" above ≈67°N, where the sun never really sets. Even at places where the sun sinks a little below the horizon, we don’t get pitch black nights.
This mod pushes our map 25° to the North to make our days longer. It also resets the day in the year to summer solstice.
I took the idea from a mod called JourPolaire, but unfortunately I couldn’t make complete sense of the values in it. So I did some research, and applied the idea on my own.
- Central and Southern Europe versions will override each other
- affects the day in the year as some weather mods do, especially season mods
- can conflict with custom map backgrounds
You can use the Southern Europe version in Central and Northern Europe, but you won’t see colorful sunsets. Still, you will avoid night driving.
This mod affects map projection.
The in-game maps seems to me to be a little tilted to the left. Istanbul is actually located at about the same latitude as Madrid, but to me it doesn’t look like that. This tilting effect is emphasized through this mod, depending on your position.
So far I do not know of any issues.
For me personally, my ETS2 background map is off, even on a vanilla profile. Don’t let that distract you in the preview video. I haven’t bothered to figure this out.
- SCS for the realistic (or good-enough?) implementation of the calculation of the position of the sun
- ProMods forum member Grattanus who shared a similar mod called JourPolaire there[promods.net], and the other members who dug it up, and brought it to my attention
- Piva, who he says he got the inspiration from
