Very short nights / "polar day" – Central Europe
Those who don’t like night driving, but enjoy sunrise and sunset.
You’ll get very short nights in e.g. France, or Germany. Nights won’t get totally dark there. At the same time, in southern Europe, there will be shorter, but still noticeable nights (darkness for about 3-4 hours).
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.
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 20° to the North to make our days longer. It also pushes the day in the year from June, 21 to August, 1. At this later date the difference between the amounts of daylight in the southern and northern parts of Europe is a little more subtle.
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.
- affects the day in the year as some weather mods do, especially season mods
- can conflict with custom map backgrounds
- 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
