Golden Hour (Photo Mode - Weather - Time Assistant)

This mod started out with me "discovering" and really start using the Photo Mode to create some nice screenshots of the game. And what's the best time of the day to make beautiful pictures? Ask any photographer, and they will say Golden Hour! For those unfamiliar with the term, in photography the (roughly) hour after dawn and hour before sunset is called Golden Hour (Wikipedia link), because the daylight is warmer (in color) and softer than when the sun is higher in the sky.

And this soft warm light can create some beautiful pictures!

This also applies in-game, although I do think you should use a lighting mod to make the best use of it. Personally I like RPL Lighting Mod best, and all screenshots (on any of my mods) are made with that mod (and of course this Golden Hour mod). At the end of this page you can find some tips to get the most out of RPL. And of course there are many more lighting mods you can try!

Back to this mod. The basic premise was to extend the duration of Golden Hour, to improve photo mode, and allow you to set the weather to suit your pictures/mood. After a while though it expanded, and it definitely also has use outside of making pictures. I personally use it all the time when playing the game. It just let's you enjoy the best parts of the day more. :)

Time Management

The mod divides the 24 hours of a day in 3 blocks:

• []Golden Hour (twice a day)

  []Rest of the day

• Night

  For each of these blocks you can define how fast time flows. By default, Golden Hour will now take 3 times as long in the morning, 2x as long in the evening, the rest of the day goes 25% faster and night goes 50% faster. But the built-in Options Menu let's you change all these values with a simple slider.

  Note: The menu is located under: Mods > Visuals and Graphics > Golden Hour.

  The mod also has an option to End Mediation automatically, when Golden Hour starts (regardless of the time you set to end mediation). By default it will do this only in the morning. Why? The morning Golden Hour looks better in the game, and this also fits from an RPG perspective: get up when the sun comes up!

  And lastly, with regards to time, each region in the game has different times when the sun comes up and goes down. To deal with that, the mod has "profiles" built in, with predefined times for each region. So basically the mods knows when it's Golden Hour in each region and you don't have to worry about that.

  Weather Management

  You can (optionally) also set what the weather should be like, for each block in the day. This is compatible with Realistic Weather and als