Preference option to turn off day/night

I want a button in prefernces that turns off the day/night cycle and keeps it daytime. I know about the debug "Force Sunset" but dang it, I want the cycle turned off completely. Because Local Lighting only seems to work in DOD supercomputers you can't turn on a light to be able to see. It drives me and everyone I know nuts. Please please fix this.

I find myself doing an ALT-N (force sunset) as soon as I come in game, it will stay day usually until I relog..as night hides too much, hard to see, etc...even in a club, I perfer it day.

Can't see a lock day option, but hitting alt-N when you need more day light is pretty easy..

It's not often I deign to soil myself with the use of sun-altering debug commands, but I needed to to get this example out fast...

There's a preferences option you can use to make night time nice and bright.







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I have turned mine up like that and it does as advertised (discovered this long ago) but it isn't daylight. I spend a lot of my SL time working on skins and I need good, bright daylight to do this. You force sunset and yes it does work for a while, then either dusk or dawn starts and you start getting the orange light.

Why must I have to keep hitting the alt-N button? A simple preference option to maintain bright daylight. It would be different if day/night cycles weren't so fast.

Alternate solution:

Enter mouselook. Look straight up. Hit Alt-M. Without moving, hit Alt-M again.

The sun should now be 'pinned' at high-noon, and shouldn't move.

That said... What do you mean, "fast" day-night cycles? Day is three hours long!

I could never get that to work...

Yeah, its fast , day is 3 hours long but for a significant portions of that are dusk and dawn so in effect you may have an hour.. maybe less. If you spend 6 hours inworld you are subjected to 2 cycles and maybe 2 hours of bright daylight and 6 periods of reduced lighting.

Sorry, I spoke incorrectly. You DO have to nudge your mouse after hitting the Alt-M the first time. Just a tiny bump will do. Basically, the sun will be pinned inside where ever your crosshairs are (so yes, you could have the sun rising in the south).

Sometimes instead of messing with all that I'll just hollow out a cube, make it white or off-white or maybe a little biege, and of material light, make sure ambient light is enabled in prefs, and just work in the cube, or with a couple of light panels here and there. Sort of a quick and dirty completely ambient lit work area.

Heh, yeah. The ambient cube. Sure, it works but lessee you have to enable locallighting(restart SL since my machine runs like molassas with it on) then build a cube then light it... just so I can see? Although a great workaround, wouldn't a simple option button be lots easier?

Heh, now I know why I could never get it to work... works now thanks. Anyway to make a script that can do that and put into a prim so I can turn on the lights? (cluelees non-scripter)