topic Re: Can you turn off the sun in a SceneView ? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/can-you-turn-off-the-sun-in-a-sceneview/m-p/1025648#M71728 <P class="lia-align-left"><a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2675">@ClayHarter</a>&nbsp; - Through trial and error, I eliminated the darkness over half the globe when centered over the polar regions.&nbsp; I had to define the date to null under environment, lighting. According to the reference, the environment, lighting date value is set to null by default. However, I noticed that it must be defined explicitly. I discovered one issue after this workaround. The stars have disappeared. They are not as important in my application, but it would have been nice if they were still there.</P><P class="lia-align-left">Hopely Esri will fix this issue permanently since this is only a workaround.</P><LI-CODE lang="javascript">environment: { lighting: { date: new Date ('null') } }</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:41:08 GMT GWachira 2021-02-10T22:41:08Z Can you turn off the sun in a SceneView ? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/can-you-turn-off-the-sun-in-a-sceneview/m-p/603611#M56512 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I want to be able to view the&nbsp; polar regions without half of the earth in the darkness. Can the lighting model be changed?&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't see any property in environmnet.lighting that would control this.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:50:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/can-you-turn-off-the-sun-in-a-sceneview/m-p/603611#M56512 ClayHarter 2016-07-29T15:50:05Z Re: Can you turn off the sun in a SceneView ? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/can-you-turn-off-the-sun-in-a-sceneview/m-p/1025648#M71728 <P class="lia-align-left"><a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2675">@ClayHarter</a>&nbsp; - Through trial and error, I eliminated the darkness over half the globe when centered over the polar regions.&nbsp; I had to define the date to null under environment, lighting. According to the reference, the environment, lighting date value is set to null by default. However, I noticed that it must be defined explicitly. I discovered one issue after this workaround. The stars have disappeared. They are not as important in my application, but it would have been nice if they were still there.</P><P class="lia-align-left">Hopely Esri will fix this issue permanently since this is only a workaround.</P><LI-CODE lang="javascript">environment: { lighting: { date: new Date ('null') } }</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:41:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/can-you-turn-off-the-sun-in-a-sceneview/m-p/1025648#M71728 GWachira 2021-02-10T22:41:08Z