Day Cycle HUD

It is no longer only a time-of-day HUD: the mod now includes marine watches, ship's bells, a separate day counter, and full in-game settings.

Day Cycle HUD is a Lua mod for Windrose that expands the standard time-of-day HUD with useful and atmospheric features without requiring constant manual editing of configuration files.

ALL MAIN MOD SETTINGS CAN NOW BE CHANGED DIRECTLY IN THE GAME.

Manual editing of Config.ini is no longer required for normal use.

Day Cycle HUD does not add a numerical clock. It describes the visible stage of the natural day and night cycle. Period boundaries were manually adjusted to match the observed sun position, lighting, sunset, twilight, night, and dawn in Windrose.

Main features

• []Eleven tuned time-of-day periods:

  []Before dawn[/]

  []Dawn[/]

  []Morning[/]

  []Noon[/]

  []Day[/]

  []Late day[/]

  []Sunset[/]

  []Twilight[/]

  []Evening[/]

  []Night[/]

  []Deep night[/]

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[]Seven traditional marine watches:

• []First Watch[/]

  []Middle Watch[/]

  []Morning Watch[/]

  []Forenoon Watch[/]

  []Afternoon Watch[/]

  []First Dog Watch[/]

  []Second Dog Watch[/]

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[]Three display modes: normal periods, marine watches, or combined period · watch.[/]

[]Optional stock Windrose ship-bell signals on eligible watch changes.[/]

[]Bell modes: off, classic, and double.[/]

[]Configurable bell volume.[/]

[]Optional ASCII progress bar.[/]

[]Configurable bar length from 4 to 32 segments.[/]

[]Main HUD scale from 80% to 130%.[/]

[]Relative X/Y positioning of the main HUD.[/]

[]One-click reset to 100% scale and X/Y offsets of 0/0.[/]

[]Optional persistent day counter.[/]

[]Separate counter profiles for different saves.[/]

[]Configurable counter position, scale, background size, and opacity.[/]

[]Runtime language selection.[/]

[]English, Russian, French, and Spanish localization included.[/]

[]Support for additional UTF-8 JSON translation files.[/]

[]Runtime debug logging switch.[/]

[]Automatic recovery after map loads and player restarts.[/]

[]Works on land, aboard ship, and while using the helm.[/]

[]Quiet logging by default.[/]

[]No DLL, executable, network access, file watcher, or automatic updater.[/]

In-game Runtime Settings

Press U after the HUD has loaded.

The Settings window contains controls for:

• []progress bar visibility and segment count;[/]

  []main HUD scale and relative X/Y position;[/]

  []marine-watch display mode;[/]

  []ship-bell mode and volume;[/]

  []day-counter visibility, initial value, profile, position, scale, and background;[/]

  []interface language;[/]

  []debug logging.[/]

Changes are staged until Apply is pressed.

The RESET button in the General tab restores:

MainHudScale=1. 00

MainHudOffsetX=0

MainHudOffsetY=0After installing an update that changes the interface, close and restart the game completely. Do not use Lua hot reload to install such an update.

Marine watches

On land, the HUD displays the normal time-of-day period.

Aboard ship, the selected mode can display:

• []off — normal time-of-day periods only;[/]

  []watch — the current marine watch replaces the period;[/]

  []mixed — the period and marine watch are shown together.[/]

Example:

Evening · First WatchThe mod intentionally signals only actual eligible watch changes. It does not implement half-hour bells.

Ship's bells

Bell modes:

• []off — no automatic bell signals; this is the default;[/]

  []classic — 8 strikes on a normal watch change and 4 strikes when entering Second Dog Watch;[/]

  []double — 2 strikes on each eligible watch change.[/]

The final strike cadence is:

0. 20 seconds within a pair

0. 85 seconds between pairsBell signals are intentionally suppressed for:

[*]the first base