is it possible add day and night cycle in game ?

Faces were a challenge, dusk may have been tricky, particularly with multiple planets.

Not through ability (I'm sure they could do it) but more priorities and resources.

Would be cool from what we hear of some fo the planets, but not likely. We learn that Aya has a night cycle with beautiful stars, and Elaaden's sun doesn't set, but when an eclipse happens on rare occasions, it's nighttime for days.

Judging by how the big reveal for BF1 this week was "night maps", I'm guessing this is a stretch for Frostbite and EAware

I doubt they'll have a day/night cycle for their SP games. I think the most we'd get was something like DA:2, where you could decide whether it was day or night when picking the zone.

However, I don't see how they could get away with not having one in Anthem.

I noticed in MEA and Inquisition that when the story goes forward, the sky is swapped out. Like Crestwood from Day to night. Why not mod this ability, so that I can swap out Aya's sky with Elaaden's for variety?

Would it be possible? I don't know how the sky texture is worked out, so maybe the tools won't allow for it. Maybe someone can ask the frosty tools creator this question . . . Changing the sky would add so much subtle differences, like Havarl getting brighter, it would be fun to play with and see the changes.

It's not swapping out the sky, as you put it. It's swapping out everything, lights, shadows, reflections. In short, creating a whole new environment.

Yeah, the shading, etc. I wondered if that might make things more complicated for modders. It seems like a really easy thing to implement on paper, so to speak. But not if everything has to be tweaked to match the sky. Ugh.

In Inquisition, it was cool to change things in the story, in Jaws for example and get almost a new area, it felt so different after day turned to night. It really helps to keep things from becoming stale, so I always wondered why modders hadn't done this type of thing. Now I get it.

it depends on the engine

it would look really cool day night cycle in other planets

it's not impossible to do, some games have it

in the witcher 2 and 3 looks beautiful

Oh shit, he did.

Now I'm just plain silly.

They have a lot of things Bioware games don't have when it comes to immersive worlds. That's obviously not Bioware's priority. With MEA it should have been however, since the whole game is about incredibly powerful terraforming machines. I'm not talking about a dynamic day/night cycle here. It would have sufficed to observe change on returning to these planets. Sort of a Crestwood change in DAI after closing the rift. A sense of real achievement this game lacks in my opinion. The real fundamental flaw of it. Creating static outposts with static NPCs doesn't cut it as don't all the people telling you it takes time. No reason to revisit other than grinding a few additional side quests.

It is possible especially since now Dice has done the work to get into BF, but I highly doubt it. There is only so much you can put into a game before it starts to bog down under the weight of what is in it and I would think having to have systems to accommodate a day/night cycle might be too much for the lesser powerful hardware. The game can struggle already with what it does and adding more dynamic content I think might not be possible. If it was in the cards from the very beginning I would have a better opinion of it because that means other areas could be tweaked to support something like this, but at the game stands I think unlikely would be extremely optimistic.

it would be nice, but we live in the eternal sunshine of the spotless game.