Events day / night

[Nantas]

Hello everyone !

I've decided recently to add a time system with a plugin ( I tried with events but I decided to do it
differently, but this question is not about plugins).

I've done some mapping and I've created a town. But when I finished it all, something came to my mind :
How do I make events stay at a place outside when it's daytime, and disappear (to make it simple) when it's nightime ?
Because it feels unnatural to have NPC's outside like in the morning, waiting there all day and even all night ^^
It doesn't feel real.

So I searched in the event's pages, but I remembered then that an event cannot return on page 1 (in the event's database) when it has already gone to page 2 or 3....

If someone has an idea on how to make it, I will be very thankfull !!

PS : My english is quite bad (not native english) so don't be afraid to ask me to precise again some things !

 

[Jeremiah Eastman]

You can go back to page one in an event by turning off whatever conditions turned the other pages on. For Day night events the way I do it is every map has a parallel process for dimming the screen when it gets nighttime or light in the day. If I have events that are going to be day night in the map I will add, to the parallel process,

Condition Branch, If Hours >= 16 Turn switch on, Else turn switch off.

Then in the events you use just make a 2nd page turned on by the switch for >=16 which is night time. With this when it hits day time the switch will be turned off resetting the events to page 1.

 

[gstv87]

events are checked for spawning at map load time.
if you have a page 1 set to trigger at day time, and it's night, it'll ignore page 1 and go to page 2.
if you have a day cycle that changes the time of day while the same map is loaded, you'll have to force a reload, so that all the events get checked again, and those that appear during the day will trigger page 1.

 

[Nantas]

I have tested what you proposed Jeremiah and it worked perfectly well !
In fact, I have forgotten that a switch can also be switched off, making the event's page return back to the previous pages ^^

Thank you you two ! You are really nice to answer me so fast !

 

[Jeremiah Eastman]

Np at all, happy it worked for you.