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Early Alpha-1 dynamic lighting example.

This has been some of the work done on the dynamic aspect of not just the clouds and the skyline, but also the different times of days that will be experienced through the world... We are not going with a 'baked' lighting aspect; we're going with a dynamic lighting aspect. So it can be a little bit costlier, but at the same time it really adds a type of mood that you would come to expect with the aesthetic you are seeing here in a game like Ashes of Creation. – Steven Sharif

Node concept art.

There is a day/night cycle in Ashes of Creation.

• Different monsters will spawn at different times.
• NPCs and mobs may be awake at different times of the day.
• Different emissive effects may be more prevalent on night creatures.

Fifteen minutes may be one hour in game time.