Option to add "sunrays" to a night time Moon

Feature Requests Studio Features
#1

As a Roblox developer it is currently too hard to add dynamic rays for night time lighting and is actually impossible (unfortunately). This is the case, unless you instead configure daytime lighting by changing sun texture to a moon version and adjust your skybox to a night time setting AND configure lighting settings to match a night time version. I would suggest a (i think) easy studio addition which is to add a “MoonRays” object that can also be inserted onto lighting in order for us to create some nice volumetric moon light rays during night time!

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because it would add a fast and efficient way of adding some extra spice to the night skies in your projects and really get that crisp effect you are looking for. Hopefully an addition like this wouldnt be too much of a hassle as you guys already developed a system for this, and i personally think it would add a lot to the realism and art direction of some projects!

Thank you for reading!

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#2

Totally agree. Though I’d say instead of having a seperate MoonRays object, just add a toggle inside of the existing SunRays object called something like AffectsMoon or similar.

Somewhat off-topic, but this post also made me think of another cool feature which would be really nice; the ability to change the gradient of the day/night colors. At the moment, it’s all hardcoded, but I’d love to be able to be able to make the sunrise/sunsets to be… not so yellow.

In general, the procedural skybox coloring system in place is pretty awful. Sunsets and sunrises are too short (i think), the colors are weird, and also not everything gets affected! I’d love to be able to make the atmosphere turn the sky red at sunset. To be honest, the atmosphere object also kinda sucks in that regard. Ahh, I keep going off topic!!!

Anyway, totally agree. Moonrays are really nice. I hope Roblox will be as well, and grant us this feature.

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#3

I agree with this. Moon rays would make my good-looking game look even better

You should make this a feature request since I also agree with this (i cant make one)

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#4

this has been requested since 2014. pls roblox. im tired of my night-inspired builds looking less than they could be.

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#5

yeah me neither :3 if i could make feature requests 60% of that category would be written by me

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#6

Bump.

This is still very much needed, I don’t see how there would be any downsides to this, nor does it seem difficult to implement.

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#7

i created a module just so that when the time changes the colors adapt to be realistic, module is closed sourced as its used in my main game.

#8

Bump this topic. Still can’t believe it hasn’t been added.

#9

It would be cool for moonrays but implementing them as part of sunrays would make it more annoying to tweak (in cases where you use both sun and moon) because the sun and moon would impractically share a set of values for their rays.
this would be good for only nighttime though

at the end it is really a roblox choice and among all these “soon to come” features from roblox its probably not at the top of their list. i hope they implement though.