sun and moon preview under horizon

[buur]

Hallo folks,

we have in the mission editor the possibility to show the position of sun and moon over horizon.

But when you want to set up a cool lightning in dusk or dawn you need also the position below the horizon.

I have attached a picture which shows the different kind of darkness referring to the degree below the horizon.

I think it would be a easy improvement to show also the -90° vertical axis in mission editor.

[buur]

if someone wants to help themselves:

Go into the file D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\MissionEditor\modules\me_weather.lua

Go to line 1505. There you find 

if degELEV > 0 then 

Change the line to

if degELEV > -90 then 

Then the elevation of the sun is also shown under the horizon.

 

Com on ED, that is simple. Please change it.

[buur]

For me this could be a good solution. You see the Sun over and under the horizon and now you have a better feeling about the brightness during the mission.

 

[upyr1]

This would be awesome 

[buur]

Just for documentation: Here the steps to modify the sun and moon chart.

1. Change the picture of the chart by coping the attached coordinate_axes.png to D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\dxgui\skins\skinME\images\window\weather

2. Override me_weather_panel.dlg in D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\MissionEditor\modules\dialogs
    In this file in the lines 7828, 7934 and 8108 the position of the cardinals E,S and W are changed.

3. Override me_weather.lua in D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\MissionEditor\modules
   the function updateSunMoon starts from line 1443. There you can change the position and when sun and moon are shown. 
 

function updateSunMoon()
	local player = mod_mission.getPlayerUnit()
	local x,y
	
	if player then
		x,y = player.x, player.y
	else
		x,y = centerWeather.x, centerWeather.y 
	end
	
	local lat, long = MapWindow.convertMetersToLatLon(x,y)
	
	local coordDisplay = OptionsData.getMiscellaneous('Coordinate_Display')
	local SummerTimeDelta = Terrain.GetTerrainConfig('SummerTimeDelta')
	
	if coordDisplay == "Lat Long" then
		eCoords:setText(U.text_coords_LatLong('lat', U.toRadians(lat)).."   "..U.text_coords_LatLong('long', U.toRadians(long)))
	elseif coordDisplay == "Lat Long Decimal" then
		eCoords:setText(U.text_coords_LatLongD('lat', U.toRadians(lat)).."   "..U.text_coords_LatLongD('long', U.toRadians(long)))
	elseif coordDisplay == "Precise Lat Long" then
		eCoords:setText(U.text_coords_LatLongHornet('lat', U.toRadians(lat)).."   "..U.text_coords_LatLongHornet('long', U.toRadians(long)))
	elseif coordDisplay == "Metric" then
		eCoords:setText(U.text_coords_Metric(x,y))
	else
		eCoords:setText(Terrain.GetMGRScoordinates(x,y))
	end


	local lastELEV = nil
	local sunRiseSec = nil
	local sunSetSec = nil

	for i=0, 23 do	
		local degAZ, degELEV = DCS.getSunAzimuthElevation(lat, long, 
										mod_mission.mission.date.Year,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Month,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Day,
										(i-SummerTimeDelta) *3600)										
		
		if lastELEV ~= nil and lastELEV < 0 and  degELEV > 0 then
			sunRiseSec = (i - degELEV/(degELEV - lastELEV))*3600
		end
		
		if lastELEV ~= nil and lastELEV > 0 and  degELEV < 0 then
			sunSetSec = (i + degELEV/(lastELEV - degELEV))*3600
		end
		lastELEV = degELEV
	end
	
	--позиция солнца
	local degAZ,degELEV = DCS.getSunAzimuthElevation(lat, long, 
										mod_mission.mission.date.Year,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Month,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Day,
										base.module_mission.mission.start_time - (SummerTimeDelta * 3600))
										
	local timeIndex = 18  
	local x,y = chart:getPosition()
	
	local xSun = x-16+degAZ/360*332
	local ySun = y-16+(73-((degELEV*2)/180)*73) -- -16 140
--	base.print("--x,y--", xSun,ySun,degAZ,degELEV )
	if degELEV > -90 then -- 0
		sSun:setPosition(xSun, ySun)
		sText:setText(base.string.format("%.1f°, %.1f°", degELEV, degAZ))
		sSun:setVisible(true)
		sText:setVisible(true)
		
		if xSun < 315 then
			sText:setPosition(xSun+35, ySun-15)	
		else
			sText:setPosition(xSun-110, ySun-15)	
		end	
	else
		sSun:setVisible(false) --false
		sText:setVisible(false) --false
	end
	

	local sunRiseAZ, t2 = DCS.getSunAzimuthElevation(lat, long, 
										mod_mission.mission.date.Year,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Month,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Day,
										sunRiseSec - (SummerTimeDelta *3600))
										
	local sunSetAZ, t4 = DCS.getSunAzimuthElevation(lat, long, 
										mod_mission.mission.date.Year,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Month,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Day,
										sunSetSec - (SummerTimeDelta *3600))										


	eSunrise:setText(U.secToString(sunRiseSec)..base.string.format(" %.1f°",sunRiseAZ))
	eSunset:setText(U.secToString(sunSetSec)..base.string.format(" %.1f°",sunSetAZ))
	
	local tmp1, tmp2, prevMoonPHASE  = DCS.getMoonAzimuthElevationPhase(lat, long, 
										mod_mission.mission.date.Year,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Month,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Day,
										base.module_mission.mission.start_time - ((SummerTimeDelta+1) * 3600))	
										
	local moonAZ, moonELEV, moonPHASE  = DCS.getMoonAzimuthElevationPhase(lat, long, 
										mod_mission.mission.date.Year,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Month,
										mod_mission.mission.date.Day,
										base.module_mission.mission.start_time - (SummerTimeDelta * 3600))	
	local xMoon = x-16+moonAZ/360*332
	local yMoon = y-16+(73-((moonELEV*2)/180)*73) --

--base.print("--moon--",moonAZ, moonELEV,U.secToString(base.module_mission.mission.start_time), moonPHASE)	
	if moonELEV > -90 then  -- 0
		sMoon:setPosition(xMoon, yMoon)
		sMoon:setVisible(true)
	else
		sMoon:setVisible(false)
	end
	
	local bWaningMoon = prevMoonPHASE > moonPHASE
	
	if moonPHASE < 0.02 then
		sMoon:setSkin(sMoon0Skin)
	elseif moonPHASE < 0.33 then
		if bWaningMoon == true then
			sMoon:setSkin(sMoon7Skin)
		else
			sMoon:setSkin(sMoon1Skin)
		end
	elseif moonPHASE < 0.66 then
		if bWaningMoon == true then
			sMoon:setSkin(sMoon6Skin)
		else
			sMoon:setSkin(sMoon2Skin)
		end
	elseif moonPHASE < 0.98 then
		if bWaningMoon == true then
			sMoon:setSkin(sMoon5Skin)
		else
			sMoon:setSkin(sMoon3Skin)
		end
	elseif moonPHASE <= 1 then
		sMoon:setSkin(sMoon4Skin)
	end
	
end

 

me_weather_panel.dlg me_weather.lua