Advancing Time Question...

[keou]

i have heard about the SkipTime option for advancing the time, but i was curious if anyone knew of a way to jump ahead to a specific time in the game.

basically, i want to set up time advance via a trigger (like a simulating a safehouse) and then want to resume the mission at night.  if i use the skiptime, it will jump ahead x-number of hours.

however, lets say the first part of mission went very, very wrong and we were behind schedule, it would be cool to be able to go to a specific time rather than the x-number of hours ahead.

just curious if anyone had any ideas.

[Artak]

It's possible and rather easy to do..

however I'm not at home right now, so incase no-one else comes along you'll get the snippet in 6 hours from now.  

[Iwesshome]

Keou,

skipTime duration

Operand types:
duration: Number
Type of returned value:
Nothing
Description:
Skip time. Daytime is adjusted, weather change is estimated, no changes in any units are done. Duration is in hours.

Example:
skipTime 2.5

So if want to use it in your mission and lets say mission starts at 8:00 and you want to jump to 12:00 after a point do this.

1. Create Trigger (can either be sync or activated by person)
In activation field: skipTime 4

Hope this helps,

IW

[Artak]

and here you have it.

Code: [Select]

;skiptime until certain time is reached by Artak

;_timelimit is a real number (ie time) which the time skip should stop
;for example 18

;skiptime 0.003 is about 10 seconds so therefore increasing about 20 seconds gametime in real time
;increase skiptime value to make the time go more fast, but note that the script will not be so accurate then.

;execute with [timeline] exec "skiptime.sqs"

_timelimit = _this select 0

;hint "time acceleration started"
#start

skiptime 0.003
~0.5
?daytime >= _timelimit: goto "exit"
goto "start"

#exit
;hint "time acceleration ended"
exit

So this allows you to stop the time skipping (acceleration) to a desired time.

If you start the skipping at 08.00 and put in a timeline of 12 the script will go on untill it's 12 O'clock. Amount of skipped time would be 4 hours. If you start the skipping at 10.00 with timeline 12, the amount of skipped time would be 2 hours. This you can not do by using just the skiptime command alone.

[keou]

Thanks everyone for the help. ;D

i had used the skiptime before, but was always getting behind schedule on the mission due to a random placed sniper or two.

but the loop via artak worked beautifully.

thanks again!