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solarpunk Dawnville at night

Terring

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@Raymond7cn, @CGMozart118, @Aleksey-kuznetsow, @tomz16, @mrsmartman, @Manuel-ito, @Dgmc2013, @mitsos, @sejr99999, @JP Schriefer, @Tonraq, @ByeByeBayou, @ohdude and @Dot: Thank your very much for your likes, your commends and your follows. Don't forget that Fairview is a CJ that evolves into the future. Our first towns exist into a near future, using technologies that are either under development right now or already exist but not in massive scale yet, but our later cities will exist in a more and more distant future, with ideas and abilities more and more advanced, strange and controversial. Always wanted a CJ that keeps evolving into the future, avoiding as much as possible the Space Age Stasis trope? Now you can have it :D

I'm deeply sorry for the delay, but my life right now is very busy. This summer I'm attending a season of studies that hopefully will help me finding a better job and I'm also working on a personal project that consumes me a lot of time. Our next town is already under development and pictures of its construction are coming soon. But for now, let's do something a little different. We've explored Dawnville at day. Now, how about exploring it at light?

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Surprisingly, Dawnville looks very dark at night. It sure has some artificial lighting, but not something too much and too excessive.

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That's a good thing, because it means that Dawnville managed to minimize the effects of another type of pollution, which is light pollution.

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Light pollution is the excessive, misdirected or/and obtrusive use of artificial lighting during the night, which is blamed for compromising health, disrupting ecosystems, messing with astronomy and spoiling aesthetic environments. Light pollution causes problems in nocturnal wildlife, confusion in animal navigation, disorientation in migrating birds (which is even worse in cities with skyscrapers like New York), declination is plant species with night-blooming flowers, increase in anxiety, problems during sleep, car accidents, and even an increase in cases of breast cancer. And if you consider that most of the electricity we produce today is coming from polluting power plants that burn fossil fuels, you can realize why night pollution is more serious than you might think.

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Of course there are some ideas to solve this problem, such as reducing the intensity of lights, redesigning the lightning plans to maximize efficiency while reducing energy consumption, and turning off the lights then we don't need them!

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Let's go back to Dawnville right now. There are some islands of lighting in this sea of darkness, but not the opposite like in those large always-illuminated cities.

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Lights are few and apart and sometimes come with different colors, just like the colonies on Mars.

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Did you noticed something? All those trees surrounding the buildings can be work as light blockers too. By preventing the executive lighting from reaching further areas, those trees help reducing light pollution, which is obviously a good thing for both Sims and wild animals.

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Overall, I'm happy with the result. A lot of darkness and just enough lights to illuminate the town *:)

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However if you know some ways to reduce light pollution even more, please let me know *:)

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OK, that looks a bit cyberpunk, right? *:D *:P

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From the next entry we'll start building our new town. See you there :)

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Woww! Dear Terring, Just Wow and speechless,:} I have seen some impressive parts of night scenes, Frankly, The futurist inspiration is my most interesting subject, Just most of them are easy to think of but hard to accomplish, Such as this one:

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I was just dreaming if we could have those very high roads which around the skyscrapers, I could model that easily, But i want the cars could be running on it as well, So do prepare to learn the PathCreator a bit to see if that's possible.:}

About the Light pollution, This is probably the first time i heard of it, but hope you don't mind it, I still prefer more lights in your futurist city, And would better to tell you some of my projects that have started: Batman and his car(50% the batman light terminated), A futurist skyscraper and a smaller one which haven't figured out how to use it, (25%), Cortana(almost finished modeling but stuck in texturing, so 45%), two futurist cars (finished modeling and prepare to make them to True3d, so 45%). Furthermore, Please feel free to tell me any approach which could reduce light pollution. I just like lights!*:D

Wish you good luck with your new work, You deserve a better one!*:thumb:

Yours Sincerely,

-- Raymond

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@Raymond7cn: I'm looking forward for your projects, they sound awesome *:D . Don't forget though that whatever you create is because you want to create it. I can help you and give you some ideas, but the rest is up to you. If you like more lights, go for it. I'll definitely download them. It's your visions, your creations, your rules *:thumb: . Never feel yourself like a servitor of somebody else and never let anybody demanding you to do things you don't like.

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Don`t worry about delaying. I am receiving your message at year 2850-QP 28:87 P.M. and it seems to be free of distortion or noise. The lights in that city are very charming. The low illuminance of the lights make some city`s details getting even more attention, like the police building and the bioluminescent mushroom like houses. Before sleep, I pointed my scan to the sky and set it to detect this violet and yellow like light emitted by them. Desire you joy as you live whatever time zone of the universe you are currently living on. :)

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¡I love that city!

I really love the idea of reducing light pollution as something like this should happen in my (real life) town. We usually had a few old streetlights and it looked good. But now their number has doubled and they have put LEDs, which I don't see much of the point in since it looked good before and now the effect is worse, because even if they are LEDs, there are many more, and they misuse they.
I love the description of Welcome to Fairview (I was depressed by dystopian movies ...)
That dim light reminds me of 80s movies and I love it ...*:thumb:

 

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