The moon, since it’s always full on Roblox, should always be 180 degrees from the sun instead of whatever it is now. I always try to ignore it, but this is highly unrealistic and it bugs me.
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I’d rather just have a completely separate moon direction property, and that property will be responsible for how the moon appears: where, what phase, etc… It would also solve the current problem that there is no way to create a solar eclipse.
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At the makerfaire Stravant said they weren’t bothering with the moon, so I suggested this because it is simple. Obviously it would be nice to have all those properties as well. They should start somewhere simple though, and see how many developers actually care about the moon.
What about solar eclipses?
They should have a tone of different options for the moon and sun, such as brightness, colour, shape/size, how long it’s up for … etc … etc…
There is a :SetMoonPhase() but it does nothing 
Also it’d be cool to have custom moon textures.
It’d be a better feature if we had some API to create our own celestial bodies.
Something like Instance.new(“CelestialBody”,game.Lighting), and then we could change texture, position, light casting, etc. This would let us have stuff like planets and multiple moons in the sky.
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I dont want roblox to be the one responsible for the sky. They should just make sure that we can make pretty sky ourselves. That means having full control over the skybox (or being able to set a Color3 for a background color such that fog wouldnt be really ugly…) as well as ensuring that there is a feasible way to render celestial bodies and clouds without ugly hax. (I would prefer parts, its just that draw distance and being affected by lighting might be problems currently)
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It would also be useful for a Boolean for hiding the moon. What if I want stars but no moon? I’m stuck.
Great, all these responses show that a lot of developers really do care about our control over the sky beyond what we can already do. Maybe they can work on it soon.