Author Topic: Use this to set up nighttime/daytime flying.  (Read 677 times)

Offline pokie

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Use this to set up nighttime/daytime flying.
« on: November 25, 2000, 07:36:00 PM »
Here is a little info on what you can do for setting up night time flying, with time passing by.  This will help get your multiplier.

.time 5 30 0 (=5:30) gives you darkness with time frozen.

Keep typing in different times until you are satisfied that night is over and dawn is beginning to break.
eg.     .time 5 31 0 (=5:31)
        .time 5 32 0 (=5:32)
        .time 5 33 0 (=5:33)
etc

Lets say that you are happy with night ending at .time 5 33 0 (5:33) that is a difference of 3 minutes (5:30 to 5:33)

Now how much real time do you want it to take, to represent those 3 minutes.  
Lets say you want 15 minutes of real time to go by, then use this formula: AT/RT=M

AT = aceshigh time
RT = real time
M = multiplier

AT = 3 minutes
RT = 15 minutes

3/15 = M
M = .2

Note: when using this formula the AT and RT must be in the same standards.  Both in minutes or both in seconds.  The multiplier come out the same.

Now enter your time as  .time 5 30 .2

This means you are starting at night, then 15 minutes later dawn is breaking. Or you could set time as .time 5 27 .2 and it then will be day for 15 minutes before the clock reaches 5:30 then it will be dark.  Then 15 minutes later dawn is breaking.

The only thing wrong with the clock in the game is you can't control the sequence of time.  Meaning you can't have 1 hour of daylight followed by 15 minutes of night then back to 1 hour of daylight then 15 minutes of night.

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Offline Ripsnort

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Use this to set up nighttime/daytime flying.
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2000, 01:43:00 PM »
Cool info Pokie! Thanks!