Day Cycle

[Jim666]

im a noob at scripting, and iv been looking for a day cycle one, where first off say its morning then goes through to night, then repeats etc.

[macguba]

Can you be more specific?  You don't need a script to go day-night-day, the game will do that by itself ...

[Jim666]

so erm, the time goes quicker then normal, so like 1 hour in game is 10 minutes. something like that

[Rappy]

Something like this then ?

#timeloop
~0.046875
skiptime 0.0001953125
worldtime = worldtime + 0.0001953125
goto "timeloop"


In this case the time progresses quite slowly though, for every 0.046875 seconds it adds 0.0001953125 to the clock.
If you want it to be faster you can add more.

For example for 10 minutes to be an hour it would be like:
#timeloop
~0.05
skiptime 0.0083333333333
worldtime = worldtime + 0.0083333333333
goto "timeloop"

[Jim666]

can you put that into a more simple form?.. like what would i call the .sqs file and how i can activate it on a trigger?.. or something..

[evil]

Download this script and put it your mission folder.  Then go into the editor.  Go to any unit with a blank "init" line.  Put this in the init line:

Code: [Select]

[x] exec "time.sqs"
Where x is any number.  The higher x is, the faster time will go.  The lower, the slower.  Keep in mind you can use decimals.

[macguba]

Jim666, evil's advice is excellent.   I strongly recommed you also head over to the Editors Depot and read snYpir's Friendly Intro to Code Snippets and also Johan Gustafsson's Scripting Guide.   They will give you a very gentle and easy introduction to scripting which will enable to make good use of this and other scripts.

[Jim666]

Yeah, cheers it worked