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Seasons Sunrise ans Sunset Time Offset Tweaks

by mahamudo Posted 31st Dec 2012 at 2:21 AM - Updated 23rd Jun 2013 at 5:57 AM by mahamudo : 1.55 compatible.
 
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#2 Old 31st Dec 2012 at 4:02 AM
Awesome. I love realism mods.
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#3 Old 31st Dec 2012 at 8:53 AM
This is so cool, I was just thinking about this the other day!

"Deep down I'm pretty superficial"

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#4 Old 31st Dec 2012 at 12:36 PM
Using the example you've used, if I download the 3 hours flavour, the sun will rise at 3am in spring? D:
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#5 Old 31st Dec 2012 at 8:52 PM Last edited by JT` : 31st Dec 2012 at 9:06 PM.
3 AM in the summer. 6 AM in the spring.

Actually, the beauty of mahamudo's tweak is that you can edit it easily in S3PE if you want to include daylight-saving style tweaks so summer sunrise is at, say, 4:30 AM or so -- just change the -3 to a -1.5 and change the 3 to a 4.5.
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#6 Old 1st Jan 2013 at 2:11 AM
I love this! Thanks!
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#7 Old 1st Jan 2013 at 3:27 PM
Thanks for making and sharing this Mahamudo. Also, thanks JT' for your info.
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#8 Old 3rd Jan 2013 at 9:54 PM
Great, thank you
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#9 Old 7th Jan 2013 at 9:17 AM
I used to know what to tweak to change the Sunrise/Sunset in S3 but, after a hard drive crash, I lost that info and can't find it. I see, however, that Seasons changes that up...have the game just haven't installed it or Supernatural while I try to decide if I want to go on without Showtime or not. The biggest problem I have with EA's times are the evenings.... I want Summer at 5 or 6 am and 9pm. Spring/Fall is 6 or 7am and 7pm and Winter at 7 or 8am and 5pm. Downloading your tweak and will see if I can get it to approximate these or find out what I can do to get me closest to what I want. Terrific that you did this....I can't help but wonder sometimes what those people at EA are thinking!!!
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#10 Old 7th Jan 2013 at 11:17 AM
Quote: Originally posted by kslibra
I used to know what to tweak to change the Sunrise/Sunset in S3 but, after a hard drive crash, I lost that info and can't find it. I see, however, that Seasons changes that up...have the game just haven't installed it or Supernatural while I try to decide if I want to go on without Showtime or not. The biggest problem I have with EA's times are the evenings.... I want Summer at 5 or 6 am and 9pm. Spring/Fall is 6 or 7am and 7pm and Winter at 7 or 8am and 5pm. Downloading your tweak and will see if I can get it to approximate these or find out what I can do to get me closest to what I want. Terrific that you did this....I can't help but wonder sometimes what those people at EA are thinking!!!


It's all simple math -- they're just positive or negative numbers of hours to add to the time of day for sunrise and sunset respectively. =)

Since the default sunrise/sunset times are 6 AM and 6 PM, and using the higher bounds you specified, I believe that equates to...

Spring: 1.0, 1.0
Summer: -1.0, 3.0
Fall: 1.0, 1.0
Winter: 2.0, -1.0

Note that you should make sure you don't have a mod that changes CommonSky.ini and/or that the mod uses the default 6.0/18.0 SunriseTime/SunsetTime if it does, or else your numbers will get thrown off. Any pre-Seasons longer days mod (e.g., dDefinder's Lighting Tweaks), for instance.

Basically, Seasons added a new SeasonsManager XML that lets us tune the sunrise and sunset for specific seasons without having to override the CommonSky INI, so now it's easier to tune seasons to your heart's content while still using lighting mods.
Test Subject
#11 Old 26th Jan 2013 at 6:37 PM
Does it work for 1.48 ?
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#12 Old 28th Jan 2013 at 2:40 AM
Works fine with 1.47 and 1.48.
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#13 Old 10th Feb 2013 at 3:41 AM
Id get this, but the times available for this mod arent very realistic. Tried to figure out how to use S3PE, but I couldn't figure out how to edit a mod.
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#14 Old 11th Feb 2013 at 3:24 AM
Quote: Originally posted by void2812
Id get this, but the times available for this mod arent very realistic. Tried to figure out how to use S3PE, but I couldn't figure out how to edit a mod.

Edit the part I showed in the picture~~~~~
It's easy to edit the XML items.
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#15 Old 13th Feb 2013 at 6:26 PM
I've never used S3PE before. The most I was able to learn how to do was upload a mod onto the program. Tried to read some instructions, but there was nothing specific enough to tell me how to start editing a mod.
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#16 Old 7th Apr 2013 at 8:17 PM
Love it thank you very much
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#17 Old 27th May 2013 at 7:22 AM
Quote: Originally posted by JT`
It's all simple math -- they're just positive or negative numbers of hours to add to the time of day for sunrise and sunset respectively. =)

Since the default sunrise/sunset times are 6 AM and 6 PM, and using the higher bounds you specified, I believe that equates to...

Spring: 1.0, 1.0
Summer: -1.0, 3.0
Fall: 1.0, 1.0
Winter: 2.0, -1.0

Note that you should make sure you don't have a mod that changes CommonSky.ini and/or that the mod uses the default 6.0/18.0 SunriseTime/SunsetTime if it does, or else your numbers will get thrown off. Any pre-Seasons longer days mod (e.g., dDefinder's Lighting Tweaks), for instance.

Basically, Seasons added a new SeasonsManager XML that lets us tune the sunrise and sunset for specific seasons without having to override the CommonSky INI, so now it's easier to tune seasons to your heart's content while still using lighting mods.


I downloaded S3PE and I tweaked the Sunrise/Sunset values to:

Summer "-2, 4.5"

Fall "1, 1"

Winter "4.5, -3"

Spring "1, 1"

I added the package file to "Sims 3 Mods" folder under My documents and when I tested it out it didn't work, I'm not sure if I did it right, can anyone please help me?
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#18 Old 22nd Jun 2013 at 9:02 PM
working it with 1.55?
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#19 Old 9th Jul 2014 at 9:23 PM
where is the SeasonsManager.xml i can't find it and when i search for it my computer can't either????????