"Set Time of Day" Action using Game Creator

[rotem adler]

Hey guys !

I want to enable switching between Day / Night (or set Time Of Day to a specific hour) using a Game Creator action. How can I set this up ?

Many thanks in advance for any help !

[MiTschMR]

You would need to create a default GC action, get a reference to the Gaia gameobject where the Date and Time settings are and on this reference use the Gaia SetTimeOfDay method (or something similar like that, I don’t know the method name). 

[Ugur Tuna]

@rotem adler 

using Gaia;

GaiaAPI.SetTimeOfDayHour(5);

GaiaAPI.SetTimeOfDayMinute(1);

[BunnyViking]

There's plenty of code online for doing time of day stuff that you could wrangle and as @MiTschMR says then it's a matter of connecting a couple GC vars to use and throwing them into those Gaia commands.

It's more basic in GC1 than GC2 for sure, even a copypaste n00b like me could probably do it 😄

[Josh]

@rotem adler If you are using the PW Sky system then yes like @Ugur Tuna mentioned the Gaia API has some functions to set these.

int hour = 5;
float minute = 40f;
Gaia.GaiaAPI.SetTimeOfDayHour(hour);
Gaia.GaiaAPI.SetTimeOfDayMinute(minute);

Hour is an int and minute is a float

You can also set the data block and tweak the other settings if you need to.
Here is an example of that.

Gaia.GaiaTimeOfDay tod = Gaia.GaiaAPI.GetTimeOfDaySettings();
tod.m_todHour = 5;
tod.m_todMinutes = 40f;
Gaia.GaiaAPI.SetTimeOfDaySettings(tod);

The GaiaTimeOfDay has the following settings: (bool)Enabled/(int)Hour/(float)Minute/(float)TimeScale. The starting time of day is no longer in use and will be removed.

Hope this helps in setting the time of day

[MiTschMR]

On 1/11/2022 at 12:44 PM, rotem adler said:

Hey guys !

I want to enable switching between Day / Night (or set Time Of Day to a specific hour) using a Game Creator action. How can I set this up ?

Many thanks in advance for any help !

I have uploaded an action to the Game Creator hub: https://hub.gamecreator.one/content/item/S6NINgpwwteF2p6j7RuZ

Please see if that works for you.