1. Time System & Day & Night
Hey Guys,
How would you go about coding a day and night system with a time system, like
a time system with day and night that'd you see in an RPG game or the obvious
GTA games.
2. Re: Time System & Day & Night
Hello Andy,
I'm not sure what you mean.
Could you rephrase it?
Cheers,
Salix
3. Re: Time System & Day & Night
I wanna make a time system. That has seconds, minutes and hours. It would count
to 60 seconds and then start counting minutes, once it 60 minutes the hour would
count one, bascilly it would be like real-life time system. Also I need to know
how to make it change from day to night and back again. I hope that clear's
thing's up.
4. Re: Time System & Day & Night
Andy wrote:
>
> I wanna make a time system. That has seconds, minutes and hours. It would
> count
> to 60 seconds and then start counting minutes, once it 60 minutes the hour
> would
> count one, bascilly it would be like real-life time system. Also I need to
> know
> how to make it change from day to night and back again. I hope that clear's
> thing's up.
A time system will work differently based on what type of game you'll be
creating. If you are making a turn-based RPG, then obviously time will
advance at the interval you set for each turn, whether it's 10 minutes
each turn or 1 hour. You will just need to determine at what time you
want your sun to rise and set.
For a real-time simulation, time will run without interruption, but it
doesn't have to mean 1 sec of game time equals 1 sec of game time. You
could easily have time advanced at 1.5 times normal. You'll also want
to advance time when (if) a character requires sleep. For a RTS, you
will use a threaded timer.
Displaying "day" and "night" is a whole 'nother question with a whole set
of its own variables.
5. Re: Time System & Day & Night
- Posted by Andy <videogamefreak101 at hotmail?com>
Aug 14, 2007
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Last edited Aug 15, 2007
Do you guys think you get started get me started, by giving me a small example
or at least give me idea with some code, to get me off my feet.
6. Re: Time System & Day & Night
- Posted by c.k.lester <euphoric at ckle?ter?com>
Aug 14, 2007
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Last edited Aug 15, 2007
You should probably start by defining your game. :)
7. Re: Time System & Day & Night
- Posted by don cole <doncole at pac??ll.net>
Aug 14, 2007
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Last edited Aug 15, 2007
Andy wrote:
>
> Do you guys think you get started get me started, by giving me a small example
> or at least give me idea with some code, to get me off my feet.
Hello Andy,
See,
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=moredates
It has all kinds of time routes. Including count down to an event and and time
passed since an event. Run it and see.
Don Cole
8. Re: Time System & Day & Night
- Posted by don cole <doncole at pa?be?l.net>
Aug 14, 2007
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Last edited Aug 15, 2007
don cole wrote:
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> Andy wrote:
> >
> > Do you guys think you get started get me started, by giving me a small
> > example
> > or at least give me idea with some code, to get me off my feet.
>
> Hello Andy,
> See,
> <a
> href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=moredates">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=moredates</a>
>
> It has all kinds of time routes. Including count down to an event and and time
> passed since an event. Run it and see.
>
> Don Cole
Now that I look at it I'm going to have to go back and upgrade.
Don Cole
9. Re: Time System & Day & Night
- Posted by Andy <videogamefreak101 at ho??ail.com>
Aug 14, 2007
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Last edited Aug 15, 2007
Well I haven't started on the game yet. I just want a game clock, that counts
the seconds, minutes, and hours. I need to be something like this.
00:00 like that and it would count and so on.
10. Re: Time System & Day & Night
- Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at blu?f?og.com>
Aug 14, 2007
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Last edited Aug 15, 2007
Andy wrote:
>
> Well I haven't started on the game yet. I just want a game clock, that counts
> the seconds, minutes, and hours. I need to be something like this.
>
> 00:00 like that and it would count and so on.
Andy:
Here are more clocks than you will ever need.
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=digital+clock
Bernie
My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API
Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan
11. Re: Time System & Day & Night
- Posted by c.k.lester <euphoric at ckle?te?.com>
Aug 14, 2007
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Last edited Aug 15, 2007
Andy wrote:
>
> Well I haven't started on the game yet. I just want a game clock, that counts
> the seconds, minutes, and hours. I need to be something like this.
>
> 00:00 like that and it would count and so on.
You still need to establish a lot more information. DOS? Linux? Windows-based?
Cross platform?
I guess somebody could make a generic timing lib that simply output a time for
you. It would need something like this:
type time_sequence(sequence s)
return length(s) = 6
end type
time_sequence time_now
time_now = date()
procedure run_clock(time_sequence s)
-- start the clock advances at the set interval
-- s will be a sequence indicating how quickly to advance each interval
-- in one second. for instance, {0,0,1,0,0,0} means time advances one
-- day (24 hours) in each second of real time
-- use {0,0,0,0,0,0} to stop the clock
end procedure
procedure set_clock(time_sequence time_to_use)
time_now = time_to_use
end procedure
function get_time()
return time_now
end function
I don't know how to set up the threaded stuff so that the timer advances
but allows other funcs/procs to do their thing.
