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Shifting Shadows - Eastshade's Day-Night Cycle (An exercise in time-lapse photography)
By Henrimagne
Not so much a guide as a showcase video celebrating the game's day-night cycle in a series of landscapes. Time-lapse photography.
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Introduction
This is a video showcase created to honour the colourful views of Eastshade's day-night cycle.

At game speed it takes around one hour for the daily cycle to run its course, although this varied from location to location.
To speed up the cycle, a series of screenshots were taken for each scene - one every 30 seconds - roughly covering midnight to midnight. The resulting slides were then played in very quick succession creating a time-lapse sequence.

Watch as the landscape changes from night to day, goes through the noon solar eclipse, then brightens up again before it reverts back to night, revealing rich, beautiful colours and graphics.

A number of in-game locations were selected:

1) Lyndow Harbour
2) Nava Bridge Approach
3) Nessa's Balloon
4) Toll Bridge
5) Onur's House
6) Tiffmoor Ruins
7) Toma's Farm
8) Tiem's Obelisk
9) Windmill (Tiffmoor Bluffs)
10) Ice Landscape (Excavation Site)
11) Rapids (Blushwood Forest)
12) Great Shade
13) Mudwillow's Mirror
14) West Tower
15) Shipwreck (Ocean's Last Breath)

Example of the shift in colour and mood during a cycle
Video
Duration: 4:40
Music used: "Painting Flowers" by Phoenix Glendinning from the Eastshade OST.

To ENLARGE the video
Once the video window is open ...
1) Scroll down the text on the right-hand side and click on "View comments and details".
2) Click on the little 'Full Screen' icon (next to the 'Settings' icon) in the bottom right corner. (Hover the mouse pointer over the video to make these icons appear.)

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1770678700

10 Comments
Henrimagne  [author] 10 Jan, 2022 @ 3:31am 
@SilverBeard
:ap_happy::steamthumbsup:
SilverBeard 9 Jan, 2022 @ 12:08am 
Until I watched your incredible work, I never realised that the 'Moon' was another completely different biome with an atmosphere. What wonderful marvels may await a traveller there?
Henrimagne  [author] 4 Jan, 2021 @ 12:53am 
@Coolkiwi
Thank you. Much appreciated. :ap_reallyhappy:
Coolkiwi 3 Jan, 2021 @ 10:56pm 
So great! A stunning video:D
Henrimagne  [author] 26 Nov, 2020 @ 8:58am 
@ninstilator1000
Thank you. Glad you liked it. :ap_reallyhappy:
ninstilator1000 26 Nov, 2020 @ 7:58am 
amazing :), thanks
Henrimagne  [author] 10 Sep, 2020 @ 12:56am 
@S
Thank you. You are welcome! :ap_happy:
S 4 Sep, 2020 @ 6:49am 
This is amazing! Love it! Thanks for posting it here.:steamhappy:
Henrimagne  [author] 19 Jul, 2020 @ 6:29am 
You are welcome, canbasher. It was a project well worth doing. I may just do a follow up some day. Who knows. :ap_reallyhappy:
canbasher 19 Jul, 2020 @ 12:38am 
nicely done! Very beautiful and captures the games beauty! Thank you for doing that!:steamhappy: