Shortened day/night cycles?

[Achmed]

We have ours set to night every 3rd restart, works pretty well!

 

how do you manage to do that?

[soad]

how do you manage to do that?

If u are hosting with vilayer still judging by your signature.

I set my server to start at 5pm with 4 hour restarts seems to work so it restarts at 9pm and returns at 5pm again.

[Junkie]

Pretty simple.....

 

Take this File : http://www.file-upload.net/download-8056989/core_time.fsm.html

 

Put it in your Mission.pbo

 

open your init.sqf and call the script (at the bottom) 

 

 

[4,false,true] execFSM "core_time.fsm";

 

4 means 4h day - 4h night

[ToejaM]

Pretty simple.....

 

Take this File : http://www.file-upload.net/download-8056989/core_time.fsm.html

 

Put it in your Mission.pbo

 

open your init.sqf and call the script (at the bottom) 

 

 

4 means 4h day - 4h night

 

Doesn't work on a fully loaded server, it glitches out and stops working.

[AlexHjelm]

Doesn't work on a fully loaded server, it glitches out and stops working.

And how do you do it then?

[norsk22771]

How to fix this so i have 3 hour day and 1 hour night?

[Robinajax]

Anyone got this to work? I would like to have 4 hours days and 2 hour night at every restart of 6 hours!

[Achmed]

not sure if anyone has come across this before but would this work?

 

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?95296-Day-and-Night-cycle-script

[Coco-Nuts]

Hello,

 

For my server, the restart is every 4h and I made 3h day & 1h night using the HiveExt.ini parameters.

I set this : 

 

[Time]

Type = Static

Hour = 17

 

The night happend at 20:00 (8 pm) average and my server restart when it's 21:00 (9pm)

So when the server restart, after it's 17:00 (5pm) in game :)

 

Hoping you have helped !

[Robinajax]

Static time doesn't work for me for some reason, it's just keep staying daytime. I got my static time on hour=16, with restarts every 6 hour. It should be night then for 2 hours but that isn't the case.

[TheSzerdi]

Experimented with this before: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=17497

 

Never got it working to a point that satisfied me, but it did work. Let me know if any of you get it working better.

[tdriftx]

Static time doesn't work for me for some reason, it's just keep staying daytime. I got my static time on hour=16, with restarts every 6 hour. It should be night then for 2 hours but that isn't the case.

Have you made sure that the type and hour variables aren't commented out ( make sure this ";" is not at the start of their lines )?

 

you should have the following:

[Time]
;Possible values: Local, Custom, Static
;You cannot use Static on OFFICIAL Hive, it will just revert to local
Type = Static
;If using Custom type, offset from UTC in hours (can be negative as well)
;Offset = -8
;If using Static type (Hour value always the same on every server start), the value (0-24) to set the Hour to
Hour = 16

If you have a server through a host, you'll want to confirm that they aren't locked down to local time only.

[Robinajax]

Thanks tdriftx! It works now!

[Ventana]

Pretty simple.....

 

Take this File : http://www.file-upload.net/download-8056989/core_time.fsm.html

 

Put it in your Mission.pbo

 

open your init.sqf and call the script (at the bottom) 

 

 

4 means 4h day - 4h night

 

Is that the correct syntax for that line?  how do you call it?

[maca134]

I tried using the setDate as it is only ran locally, still caused micro freezes when updating...

 

I need to figure out how Origin has done it grrrrrr

 

something that has bugged me a while now

[Achmed]

Was there not a old version of the origin server pbo files making the rounds at one point that could be looked at for ideas on how to do it?

[maca134]

I did look into that, its all in the server cleanup fsm, used the same method but no luck, still laggy

[Achmed]

I had a Google and found this but don't know if it's any help etc. The file is called by the init.sqf with reference to 4 hour day and night

https://github.com/joenilan/DayZOrigins/blob/master/MPMissions/dayz_1.origins.tavi/core_time.fsm

[Renegade2k6]

Instructions for above origins script. Adjusting Day/Night Time

• Edit \MPMissions\dayz_1.origins.tavi\init.sqf
• Look for:[3,true,true] execFSM "core_time.fsm";
• Default is currently 4hr day/night.
• Other examples:

  --- [4,true,true] execFSM "core_time.fsm"; (3hr day/night)

  --- [3,true,true,12] execFSM "core_time.fsm"; (4hr day / 1 hr night)

• To disable completely, just add a double slash to the front of the line '//'

[Ventana]

Instructions for above origins script. Adjusting Day/Night Time

• Edit \MPMissions\dayz_1.origins.tavi\init.sqf
• Look for:[3,true,true] execFSM "core_time.fsm";
• Default is currently 4hr day/night.
• Other examples:

  --- [4,true,true] execFSM "core_time.fsm"; (3hr day/night)

  --- [3,true,true,12] execFSM "core_time.fsm"; (4hr day / 1 hr night)

• To disable completely, just add a double slash to the front of the line '//'

 

 

I;m not getting too much traffic on my server right now (curse you standalone) so I might give this a try to satisfy a large group of night dwellers I have on my server. 

 

Is there any changes I need to make in my cfg files its vurrently set to:

 

[Time]

Type = static

hour = 13

[LunchboxCharlie]

Does this work for the current version of epoch?

[Ventana]

I'm running this right now.  It keeps resetting the in-game clock to 2:30 pm every few min.

[Ventana]

This doesn't work for me.  Installed as described and set up as 4hr day/1 hr night.  Never changed, just kept resetting the in game clock.  anyone have any idea?

[mrkarp]

Have you made sure that the type and hour variables aren't commented out ( make sure this ";" is not at the start of their lines )?

 

you should have the following:

[Time]
;Possible values: Local, Custom, Static
;You cannot use Static on OFFICIAL Hive, it will just revert to local
Type = Static
;If using Custom type, offset from UTC in hours (can be negative as well)
;Offset = -8
;If using Static type (Hour value always the same on every server start), the value (0-24) to set the Hour to
Hour = 16

If you have a server through a host, you'll want to confirm that they aren't locked down to local time only.

 

This is the best method, the script listed earlier in this thread uses a function called skipTime, which has to be broadcasted to each user as the server updates aswell, I have played with this function many of times, and it seems that A2 cannot keep up with the constant change, especially while running something as big as DayZ. The constant flashes, and choppy clouds are the result of either the client trying to sync with the server, or vice versa, and thus causing a split second where it thinks it still daylight, or is moving to fast and results to light flashes and choppy clouds. While I have never gotten this to run smoothly on A2, it works wonders in A3, but that's a different story. 

 

With that being said I would try to fine tune your Hiveext.ini with the Static time variables, we have on our server it running 3hrs day, and 1hr night aas to tdriftx post..

[maca134]

Origins have managed it so its possible somehow