Allow days and nights to have different lengths

[rogeriodec_games]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently impossible to have days and nights with different lengths in a realistic way…

There are some ready solutions like How do I make nights longer than days in Day night cycle - #6 by GorillaWeb, however, this will create an unreal effect of the moon passing faster across the sky at night as if the planet earth rotates accelerated at night and decelerated by day…

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because this will create a more realistic effect for the day/night cycle.

[Auhrii]

+1. As a workaround for now, consider hiding the skybox moon and replacing it with a BillboardGui. This also has the benefit of decoupling the moon from the night, which in itself isn’t realistic.

On a similar note, there’s been a lot of demand for a skybox overhaul for a while now, if you would also like to add this to the thread:

Skybox Overhaul

Hello! As a Roblox developer, it’s fairly difficult to make a game with lighting and a skybox that stands out at any time of day. I think it goes without saying that the current skybox system is pretty ancient, and whilst the addition of being able to specify sun and moon textures was greatly appreciated, there’s still a lot of room for improvement. This is a list! I’m sorry. Custom sun/moon paths: Being tied to hard-coded paths for the sun and moon based on GeographicLatitude and TimeOfDay i…