Day/Night

HI! I made a Day/night event that works fine for me but could someone please tell me how to halt it happening inside, But i still want it to be night if it was night when you entered, day if it was day when you entered etc. I attached a shot of the common event incase it helps. Yeah I did go back to using rm2k tho i still dont have a game in mind I have a few ideas.

First thing's first - insert another Fork as the first line, with a switch being the condition (xxxx:TimeInEffect). Now, you'll need to move all of the other forks into that first fork statement. The best way to do that is to select the first statement you need to copy, hold shift, and then click the last line to copy (while still holding shift, obviously). That'll select everything so you can right-click + cut, then paste the lines into the fort statement.

On any "Outside" to "Inside" teleportation events, disable the xxxx:TimeInEffect switch. In any "Inside" to "Outside" events, enable that switch. Any event where you stay inside or outside, you won't need to add anything.

The screen will still be whatever color you have it set at, it'll still be "morning", etc - it'll just stop time from moving.

Edit:

Ahh, you attached it. I forgot that branches are called forks in RM2k..

I think you have to wait a little while before it shows up. Takes a minute or two with me. I dont really understand your post so... Please could you wait a little while to see if it works? Thanks.

Basically, if you want time to stop, disable the "TimeInEffect" switch. If you want time to go, enable "TimeInEffect".

The structure is something like it is below, with your forks instead of the comments..

Ok I get that but my system has waits in it not timers, does that matter?

CODE HAS CHANGED AFTER A QUICK RUN-THROUGH IN MY HEAD.

After reviewing the code, I wonder if the "waits" will simply advance one time period and THEN stop. Not what you want.

It might be best to do something like this: (Pseudocode time!)

<>Branch: TimeInEffect is ON
...<>Add 1 to "0024:Hour" variable
...<>Branch: Hour = 6
......<>Branch: Hour = 11
.........<>Branch: Hour = 15
............<>Branch: Hour = 20
...............<>Branch: Hour = 24
..................<>Set Hour to 0
..................<>
...............:End
...............<>Set screen as Night
...............<>
............:End
............<>Set screen as Afternoon
............<>
.........:End
.........<>Set screen as Mid-Day
.........<>
......:End
......<>Set screen as Morning
......<>
...:End
...<>Wait x seconds
...<>
:End


It's color-coded so you can see where the branches are nested. Change the hours to whatever you feel are appropriate.

This one's based on a 24-hour model I once used... the bonus is, you can have events that are based on the hours of the day! So you can have, say, a door to a shop that's disabled when Hour > 18 (6pm) or Hour < 6 (6am) or something.

And, of course, a "watch" item might come in handy to tell the time. You'll just use it to call a common event, that only consists of this line:

<>Message: "The time is \v[24] o'clock."

Change the 24 to whatever your "Hour" variable number is.. if it's [0001:Hour] then you'd change it to 1, for example.