[Scripting Question] How to force it to be night on a specific map

HarmonyConcept · Jun 25, 2016

Does anyone have another way to temporarily force (or simulate) night on a map?

Changing screen tones is not fully working for me. In the example below, the tone is set to (-127, -127, 25, 68) (Night). It seems to be working (left screen); but when walking to some areas of the same map, the tone suddenly changes without any reason (no particular event, no map connection...) - here, in a deeper blue. I have no clue why the tone keeps changing (randomly?) in some places.

tustin2121 · Jun 27, 2016

The script section PField_Time implements a method pbGetTimeNow, which you can override to force a certain time of day on a given map.

Code:

def pbGetTimeNow
  time=Time.now
  if $game_map.map_id == 10 #Your map id here
    #Set time to midnight of the current day
    time = Time.new(time.year,time.month,time.day,0,0)
  end
  return time
end

Note: If you're using an extension that already overrides pbGetTimeNow, like -FL-'s "Unreal time system", doing the above WILL screw that up. Also, this won't work if you don't have time of day shading on already...

_{Note: I haven't tested the above code.}

HarmonyConcept · Jun 27, 2016

Thank you! As it is your solution is not entirely satisfying since I need to change time only temporarily and on multiple maps. So I thought using a global switch could do the trick (I use 15.1):

Code:

def pbGetTimeNow
  return Time.now
  if $game_switches[70]==true
    time = Time.new(time.year,time.month,time.day,0,0)
  end
  return time
end

But it doesn't do anything. Shading is enabled.

It looks like there are plenty of ways to question the actual time of the game, but no way to change it. That's why it may be easier to simulate it, but I can't do that properly with changing screen tones.

desbrina · Jun 28, 2016

your code isn't being ran because of the return Time.now statement at the beginning

try something as this (not tested)

Code:

def pbGetTimeNow
  if $game_switches[70]==true
    return Time.new(time.year,time.month,time.day,0,0)
  end
  return Time.now
end

HarmonyConcept · Jun 28, 2016

Thank you but it doesn't do anything neither (by that I mean the time remains unchanged).

EDIT: By the way all of this does not explain why, when I change the screen tone in an event (which could do the trick), i've got different blue tones such as displayed in first post.

EDIT2: Issue solved by using FL's Unreal Time System.

[Scripting Question] How to force it to be night on a specific map

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