Day / Night Cycles

[DustyPorViva]

Instead of scripting it using seteffect, you can change the colors of the tilelayer itself to have the same effect... but I don't like the look of just the tiles being colored, but all sprites/NPCs not. This includes doors and such as well. If we had more image layers we could use a polygon with mode 0 to have a much better looking effects, but ya...

The lighting themselves could be very smooth if done right. All it needs is a buffer calculation between the hours that will smooth for each minute/second or so. It's not that hard and I've done it plenty of times before.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Instead of scripting it using seteffect, you can change the colors of the tilelayer itself to have the same effect... but I don't like the look of just the tiles being colored, but all sprites/NPCs not. This includes doors and such as well. If we had more image layers we could use a polygon with mode 0 to have a much better looking effects, but ya...

When you color tiles using script that's all it comes down to. I doubt you'll get a similar night setting just coloring in the tiles with one tone.

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

The lighting themselves could be very smooth if done right. All it needs is a buffer calculation between the hours that will smooth for each minute/second or so. It's not that hard and I've done it plenty of times before.

It's a just dark overlay, and like already mentioned, obstructive to sight rather than aesthetically conveying a "night" setting.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Rufus

When you color tiles using script that's all it comes down to. I doubt you'll get a similar night setting just coloring in the tiles with one tone.

Not sure what you mean.

Originally Posted by Rufus

It's a just dark overlay, and like already mentioned, obstructive to sight rather than aesthetically conveying a "night" setting.

Aye, that's why I tend not to make it too dark. Just dark enough to portray that it's night time.

[jacob_bald6225]

Everyone mentions making day/night shorter to make sure everyone experiences different times-- I think it'd be cool to have day last for 48 real life hours followed by 24 hours of night.


So 48 hours for day, then 24 hours of night.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by jacob_bald6225

Everyone mentions making day/night shorter to make sure everyone experiences different times-- I think it'd be cool to have day last for 48 real life hours followed by 24 hours of night.


So 48 hours for day, then 24 hours of night.

Meh, I don't like having to wait a whole day, let along two, for an event.