time

excaliber7388 · #1 10-10-2005, 04:04 PM

here's my current time/day/night script, I wanted to make it so it was more like real time, and possible modify it so it matched current time in real time. How would I do this?

NPC Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE

if(created||timeout){

  this.seconds=timevar%60;

  this.minutes=int(timevar/60)%60;

  this.hours=int(timevar/3600)%24;

  showimg 888,dr-hourglass.png,293,10;

  showtext 889,316,10,Comic Sans,b,#v(this.hours):#v(this.minutes):#v (this.seconds);

  changeimgvis 888,5;

  changeimgvis 889,5;

  changeimgzoom 888,.85;

    if(this.hours==16) {

      setbackpal dusk1.png;

     }

    if(this.hours==20){

      setbackpal dusk3.png;

     }

    if(this.hours==24){

      setbackpal dusk5.png;

     }

    if(this.hours==1) {

      setbackpal dusk4.png;

     }

    if(this.hours==4) {

      setbackpal dusk3.png;

     }

    if(this.hours==5) {

      setbackpal dusk2.png;

     }

    if(this.hours==6) {

      setbackpal pics1.png;

     }

  timeout=.05;



}

Skyld · #2 10-10-2005, 08:07 PM

Make a script that counts, I guess.

That, or make creative use of timevar. It increases by one every 5 seconds. Use it to your advantage, boy.

excaliber7388 · #3 10-10-2005, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skyld

Make a script that counts, I guess.

That, or make creative use of timevar. It increases by one every 5 seconds. Use it to your advantage, boy.

yeah I tried something like int(timevar*.2)%60 but that 'froze' the time

ZeLpH_MyStiK · #4 10-10-2005, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

yeah I tried something like int(timevar*.2)%60 but that 'froze' the time

why would you multiply by .2? since it increases by one every five seconds, you'd multiply by 5. Plus timevar is the amount of time passed since the server was up. You would have to find a way around the different days in a month (28,30,31), the leap year increments (.25 day every year)...and etc.

ApothiX · #5 10-10-2005, 09:10 PM

If you want to be the real time, use timevar2,

PHP Code:


			
timezone = -5; // GMT-5 (EST)

seconds = int(timevar2 % 60);

minutes = int((timevar2 / 60) % 60);

hours = int((timevar2 / (60 * 60)) % 24) + (timezone + 1);

excaliber7388 · #6 10-12-2005, 02:33 AM

Hmm, not gonna restart my server anyway XD, but is there a way to modify this, without disabling the ammount for hours min, etc?

ZeLpH_MyStiK · #7 10-12-2005, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Hmm, not gonna restart my server anyway XD, but is there a way to modify this, without disabling the ammount for hours min, etc?

you can use another variable:

NPC Code:



this.time=timevar-2;

Polo · #8 10-12-2005, 12:25 PM

On Classic we have a 24 hour clock for doing accurate day/night. We use timevar2 on clientside (seconds since they turned thier computer on). To change this into somthing synced for everyone, we calculate the offset to the serverside timevar2 (unix time) when they log in, and then adjust for this before calculating the actual time.

Theoretically, everyone is then getting thier times as unix time, give or take a small error for lag reasons.

excaliber7388 · #9 10-12-2005, 10:15 PM

here's what I'm using right now, but everyone has different times, and I think the time changes when you log on x_X suggestions?

NPC Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE

if(created||timeout){

  this.hour=timevar2+16*3600;

  this.min=timevar2-24*60;

  this.seconds=int(timevar2)%60;

  this.minutes=int(this.min/60)%60;

  this.hours=int(this.hour/3600)%24;

  showimg 888,dr-hourglass.png,290,10;

  showtext 889,316,10,Comic Sans,b,#v(this.hours):#v(this.minutes):#v(this.sec  onds);

  changeimgvis 888,5;

  changeimgvis 889,5;

  changeimgzoom 888,.85;

  if(isonmap){  

    if(this.hours==16&&this.hours<20) {

      setbackpal dusk1.png

    }

    if(this.hours=>17&&this.hours<20){

      setbackpal dusk3.png

    }

    if(this.hours=>20&&this.hours<24){

      setbackpal dusk4.png

    }

    if(this.hours==24){

      setbackpal dusk5.png

    }

    if(this.hours=<3) {

      setbackpal dusk4.png

    }

    if(this.hours==4) {

      setbackpal dusk3.png

    }

    if(this.hours==5) {

      setbackpal dusk1.png

    }

    if(this.hours=>6&&this.hours<16) {

      setbackpal pics1.png

    }

  }

  if(!isonmap){setbackpal pics1.png}

  timeout=.05;



}

ZeLpH_MyStiK · #10 10-12-2005, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Polo

On Classic we have a 24 hour clock for doing accurate day/night. We use timevar2 on clientside (seconds since they turned thier computer on). To change this into somthing synced for everyone, we calculate the offset to the serverside timevar2 (unix time) when they log in, and then adjust for this before calculating the actual time.

Theoretically, everyone is then getting thier times as unix time, give or take a small error for lag reasons.

So I'm assuming once it's synced, client computers will do the addition of seconds and minutes and etc in a timeout loop? It's not accurate since the calculation will take cpu speed and throw off following loops. Plus, as Spark has said before, having a 24 hour clock will mean that half of your players will always play in the dark while the other half play in the light.

As for excaliber7388's problem, i don't see anything that would cause everyone to have different times. However, setbackpal is very outdated and should no longer be used. Instead, replace with seteffect.

Polo · #11 10-13-2005, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZeLpH_MyStiK

So I'm assuming once it's synced, client computers will do the addition of seconds and minutes and etc in a timeout loop? It's not accurate since the calculation will take cpu speed and throw off following loops. Plus, as Spark has said before, having a 24 hour clock will mean that half of your players will always play in the dark while the other half play in the light.

Actually, timeout is running using the system clock, and is therefore pretty accurate regardless of the users CPU. As a general comparison, between my Intel Pentium3 450mhz, and my AMD AthlonXP 2600+ Barton, there is no discernable difference, and I think most people would agree that these are very different levels of CPU.

The calculation is not summing an ammount of seconds periodically anyway, it is always resalsculating the time from the stored offset, and the clientside timevar2. If we count the difference caused by the delay transmitting the offset back to the player as negligable, then the clock is acurate enough to create evolving day/night and weather effects. We can even creat extra snow in winter for example, by correctly identifying weather changes and simulating these as sinusoids (using the synced clock, with varying offsets and periods).

As for players playing in the dark, as weather and day/night are not central to the theme of Classic, users have the option to disable them (infact, for all players these effects are disabled by default).

excaliber7388 · #12 10-12-2005, 11:43 PM

Time changes when you log in, different times for everyone x_X bad

excaliber7388 · #13 10-13-2005, 12:04 AM

How do you sync it???(And it changes EVERY time you log on in my current script

ZeLpH_MyStiK · #14 10-13-2005, 12:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

How do you sync it???(And it changes EVERY time you log on in my current script

It's supposed to change? Since timevar2 is a freakin' nanosecond precisioned counting machine! j/k but timevar2 increases whether you're on player or not, same goes for timevar.

Ajira · #15 10-13-2005, 02:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

How do you sync it???(And it changes EVERY time you log on in my current script

It's because it's CLIENTSIDE. It's the seconds since your computer's on. If you do it serverside, it should be the same. Or at least sync it with the serverside when you log on first.