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How to impliment a 10 minute day clock, and tie it to a directional light rotation.
Hi everyone, I'm new at this but learning.
Much as the question says, I'm looking at creating a clock above the minimap I have in my gui, which shows time in the game, as I will have time related events in the game world, but in it a day passes at roughly 10 minute cycles.
How do I tear gametime away from my system time which it seems to be going to automatically, and display that in a timer. (Think, the Sims, for example).
In addition, I'm trying to link this to a day night cycle, and I thiiink (tentativley) that I have that rotation sorted, but its rotating on a 24hour cycle as it is tied to my system time.
Any help would be appreciated =)
Just incase anyone sees this in the future and needs a solution. My workaround was as follows
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class GameTime : MonoBehaviour {
public Transform Sun;
public float dayCycleInMinutes = 4;
public const float SECOND = 1;
public const float MINUTE = 60 * SECOND;
public const float HOUR = 60 * MINUTE;
public const float DAY = 24 * HOUR;
public const float MONTH = 30 * DAY;
public const float YEAR = 12 * MONTH;
private const float DEGREES_PER_SECOND = 360 / DAY;
private float _degreeRotation;
private float _timeofDay;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
_timeofDay = 0;
_degreeRotation = DEGREES_PER_SECOND * DAY / (dayCycleInMinutes * MINUTE);
Time.timeScale = 1.0f;
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
Sun.Rotate(new Vector3(_degreeRotation, 0, 0) * Time.deltaTime);
_timeofDay += Time.deltaTime;
Debug.Log(_timeofDay);
}
}
This ties the rotation to a gameobject based over that time. The time was displayed on a GuiText clock which operated independently.
var nextSecond : float = 25;
var second: int;
var hour =0.0f;
var day = 0.0f;
var month = 0.0f;
var year= 0.0f;
function Update () {
if(nextSecond > 0) {
nextSecond -= Time.deltaTime;
}
else {
nextSecond = 25;
hour += 1;
}
if (hour >= 24){
hour=0;
day +=1;
}
if (day >= 30){
day=0;
month +=1;
}
if (month >= 12){
month=0;
year +=1;
}
guiText.text = " " + day + " " + month + " " + year;
}
All of these were found on the Unity Wiki or other answers on here.
If you don't want to update a time variable every frame (or every second, using coroutines), You could possibly use modulo-division to get a 10 minute time from your 24hr cycle
Just incase anyone sees this in the future and needs a solution. My workaround was as follows
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class GameTime : MonoBehaviour {
public Transform Sun;
public float dayCycleInMinutes = 4;
public const float SECOND = 1;
public const float MINUTE = 60 * SECOND;
public const float HOUR = 60 * MINUTE;
public const float DAY = 24 * HOUR;
public const float MONTH = 30 * DAY;
public const float YEAR = 12 * MONTH;
private const float DEGREES_PER_SECOND = 360 / DAY;
private float _degreeRotation;
private float _timeofDay;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
_timeofDay = 0;
_degreeRotation = DEGREES_PER_SECOND * DAY / (dayCycleInMinutes * MINUTE);
Time.timeScale = 1.0f;
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
Sun.Rotate(new Vector3(_degreeRotation, 0, 0) * Time.deltaTime);
_timeofDay += Time.deltaTime;
Debug.Log(_timeofDay);
}
}
This ties the rotation to a gameobject based over that time. The time was displayed on a GuiText clock which operated independently.
var nextSecond : float = 25;
var second: int;
var hour =0.0f;
var day = 0.0f;
var month = 0.0f;
var year= 0.0f;
function Update () {
if(nextSecond > 0) {
nextSecond -= Time.deltaTime;
}
else {
nextSecond = 25;
hour += 1;
}
if (hour >= 24){
hour=0;
day +=1;
}
if (day >= 30){
day=0;
month +=1;
}
if (month >= 12){
month=0;
year +=1;
}
guiText.text = " " + day + " " + month + " " + year;
}
All of these were found on the Unity Wiki or other answers on here.
using UnityEngine; using System.Collections;
public class TimeOfDay : MonoBehaviour {
public float time = 0.5f;
void Update () {
this.transform.Rotate (Vector3.right * time * Time.smoothDeltaTime);
}
}
