Day & Night

Day & Night

Hansa Forever's world now moves from sunrise to moonlight. This major update introduces a persistent day-and-night cycle across the Main Menu, WorldScene, and CityScene, while renewing convoys, city interfaces, ship interaction, production visuals, and Player-build reliability.

Thank you for continuing to share your feedback. Day & Night brings together a broad collection of systems and presentation work designed to make the Hanseatic world feel more alive, readable, and dependable.

A World That Changes With Time

• A persistent day-and-night cycle now continues naturally between the Main Menu, world map, and cities.
• Lighting, atmosphere, and the lower-left time wheel stay synchronized as the world moves through the day.
• Main Menu harbor presentation and scene navigation have been renewed to support the living-world presentation.

Renewed ConvoyPanel

• The live ConvoyPanel now uses its new authored parchment, brass, and iron presentation while preserving all existing ship-management behavior.
• The four approved ship and caravan categories remain visible. Caravan categories stay empty until the caravan gameplay system is introduced.
• Search supports ship names and localized city names, returning deterministic results across scenes.
• Selecting a ship in another scene safely loads the correct scene and moves the camera to that vessel using its stable identity.
• The list scrolls when needed, ensuring players can reach every owned ship even with larger fleets.
• Selection, clearing filters, repeated clicks, closing, Escape, reopening, and scene-transition behavior have been stabilized.

Cities, Government & Guild Life

• Town Hall Missions and Guild Missions remain independent systems with their own eligibility, progression, and active-mission limits.
• Town Hall government, elections, treasury, taxation, patrol, missions, and city projects now have clearer live presentation and persistent state.
• Guild tasks, Alderman elections, standings, statistics, privileges, and annual Measures have received further interface and reliability improvements.
• Church, Shipyard, Ledger House, Architect, Options, pause, and other city panels now use transparent input blockers instead of unwanted dark rectangles.
• Modal panels consistently block world and camera input without obscuring the scene behind them.

Ships & City Interaction

• Clicking outside a selected AI ship now clears the selection in CityScene.
• Players can select another ship directly without leaving and re-entering the city scene.
• ShipPanel now uses its dedicated Pinnace, Frigate, and Cog illustrations instead of reusing Shipyard construction artwork.
• Cross-scene ship focus, camera movement, missing-ship handling, and loading failures now resolve without leaving the panel or camera in a broken state.

Visual & Interface Improvements

• Missing or incompatible production-building materials that appeared pink, white, or untextured have been repaired across the affected city content.
• Rostock's environment, trees, water, roads, production areas, and city presentation received additional visual cleanup.
• Panel scaling, close controls, transparent backgrounds, selection highlights, cursor ownership, and loading feedback have been made more consistent.
• The new ConvoyPanel, renewed menus, and building panels retain safe viewport placement and reliable Escape behavior.

Performance, Saving & Player Reliability

• Scene transitions, loading-cursor ownership, and camera restoration have been hardened to prevent duplicate cursors and broken input states.
• Docked ships use staged initialization, while off-screen pedestrian and city work has been reduced for smoother play.
• Save and load support has been reinforced for the new governance, Guild, mission, option, and stable ship-identity data.
• Additional Player-build validation protects scene, prefab, artwork, localization, and runtime references in the distributed Windows/Steam build.

Thank you for helping Hansa Forever grow. We hope you enjoy watching the Hanseatic world change from day to night.