A VERY picky question....

[Anatoli-Kagari9]

Really looking into DCS World. I am a former Lockon user, but have long been away from simming. The release of the p51 made me return to the forum, with a very picky (I know...) question regarding time-of-day/day-of-year modelling in the new DCS-World platform.

 

Does DCS-World allow for date settings for a flight? Can I set for instance date to 1998-05-12 or 2029-11-30, etc... at given hours of the day?

 

If yes, are daylight times computed acording to date?

 

 

Thx in advance for any answer!

[Nate--IRL--]

AFAIK yes you can set any day in the future - sun position is calculated accurately even the stars will be aligned properly at night.

 

Nate

[Eddie]

Does DCS-World allow for date settings for a flight? Can I set for instance date to 1998-05-12 or 2029-11-30, etc... at given hours of the day?

 

Yes and no. You can't set a date in the way you mention, but you can select the day in a 365 day period (based on the year 2011 IIRC) with day 1 being the 1st of June.

 

If yes, are daylight times computed acording to date?

 

Yes, as are moon cycles etc.

[Nate--IRL--]

Yes and no. You can't set a date in the way you mention, but you can select the day in a 365 day period (based on the year 2011 IIRC) with day 1 being the 1st of June.

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Ahh I was not aware of that. I thought it was any date.

 

Nate

[HiJack]

I made this for mission making in FC2 but I guess the date thing is the same in DCS World.

 

 

(HJ)

[Anatoli-Kagari9]

Whow!!!! That's what I call lightning fast replies :-) THX!!!

 

And that's very good to know too... Of course, if the detail goes up to the stars, I believe the Moon and it's phases too are represented :-)

 

Great detail! Looking fwd for the p51 final :-)

 

 

AFAIK yes you can set any day in the future - sun position is calculated accurately even the stars will be aligned properly at night.

 

Nate

Edited May 7, 2012 by jcomm

[Dr_Arrow]

I made this for mission making in FC2 but I guess the date thing is the same in DCS World.

 

 

(HJ)

 

 

This table should be in the manual. Thanks a lot for it, I never knew how to set day number to match the actual season:thumbup:

[JimMack]

This table should be in the manual. Thanks a lot for it, I never knew how to set day number to match the actual season:thumbup:

 

The size of the moon also seems to change. Yesterday was the largest size in real life.

[cichlidfan]

Yes and no. You can't set a date in the way you mention, but you can select the day in a 365 day period (based on the year 2011 IIRC) with day 1 being the 1st of June.

Yes, as are moon cycles etc.

 

So our available dates, for getting the moon you want for example, are from 1 June 2011 to May 30 2012?

 

2012 was a leap year so I guess we lose May 31.