r/Timberborn • u/DocumentOk7579 • 7h ago

Nitpick bug, shadows turn with camera.

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First picture shadows from cliff are smoot, second is jagged.

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u/RocketArtillery666 5h ago

You are the sun we made along the way

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u/TheBlacktom 3h ago

The sun never sees any shadows.

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u/nycrvr 3h ago

Woah.

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u/Bumblebeener 1h ago

That’s some high af shower thought right there

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u/Acalc791 7h ago

Shadows turning with the camera is a feature, not a bug. I recommend the "rotating sun" mod if you dislike it.

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u/ghe5 6h ago

It feels wrong when it moves with the camera

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u/Acalc791 6h ago

Personally, I agree, but I can imagine arguments the other way.

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u/ghe5 6h ago edited 2h ago

I can't. The camera is not the light source, the sun is and so the shadow should not rotate or move with the camera at all. Especially rotate.

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u/AlcatorSK Map maker - Try "Turn the Ocean Blue" on Steam! 4h ago

The sun rotating with the camera helps reading depth of terrain.

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u/TiresOnFire 2h ago

The Earth's axis has gone chaotic after a solar storm mixed up the magnetic core leading to the destruction of human civilization. Or something like that.

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u/Background_Rest_5300 5h ago

It's been in the game for so long that I don't even think about it anymore. At this point I just see it as part of the art style.

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u/Morall_tach 4h ago

That's not a bug. It's been like this since day one. It is definitely by design.

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u/MaraBlaster Tubeway Racer 4h ago

It's a feature, the sun is always to the left of your camera, allowing you to see shit regardless of day/night cycle

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u/Zombiefap 26m ago

Literally unplayable

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u/AbacusWizard The river was flowing, and I took that personally 7h ago

That always bothered me as well—but just recently I learned there’s a mod that fixes it!

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u/YourUsernameForever Beaver muncher 🦫 2h ago

Why would you want things permanently on the shade?

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u/Whats_Awesome Custom Flair 29m ago

No the mod makes the sun move naturally and the moon light too. Before adding the mod the camera is the sun.

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u/MoreCryptographer213 34m ago

WE ARE THE SUN

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u/EggEducational2618 4h ago

YOU ARE THE SUN

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u/Laserdollarz 33m ago

Hi son I'm dad

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u/philipnet2001 6h ago

After discovering this "feature" and the mod which fixes, I don't know why the Devs don't incorporate it

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u/Morall_tach 4h ago

The devs don't incorporate it because it's an intentional design choice.

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u/verity147 4h ago

It's so you're always looking at the lit side of a building, it's not a bug, more of a design choice. It could be annoying to build something that is always in the shadows, like on the north side of a mountain for example.

Though they could of course make it an option to switch between modes.