Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this Unity game development tutorial we're going to look at how we can create a simple day/night cycle.

We'll start looking at how to control and display the time of day.

Then we'll look at how to simulate the position and direction of the sunlight changing as the day progresses.

Finally we'll look at how to transition between daytime and nighttime ambient light and how to add some moonlight at night.

The project files are available to our patrons here:
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Want to follow along? This project is a good starting point
► patreon.com/posts/56850268

The final script can be found here
► dotnetfiddle.net/7jfc0O

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Introduction - 0:00
Controlling and displaying the time of day - 0:24
Changing the direction of the sun - 5:10
Transitioning to nighttime lighting -13:13
Summary - 19:13

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