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How do I make a clock GUI with a day/night cycle?
I need to make a day/night cycle with a working digital clock displayed at the bottom of a player’s screen. 8 minute day, 2 minute night. Also with days of the week. Please reply if you know how to script this!
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Well I’m not sure if that’s possible maybe you can just do a script that goes to a certain time DNX_Code 0 — 6y
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It's more difficult if you want the digital clock's numbers to be images, but if you can find a font you like, it's easier. What you'll need to do:
- Have a server script that manages what the current time is, or you could just use
workspace.DistributedGameTimeand perform% (secondsInDay)to get the current time-of-day in seconds --secondsInDay = (8 + 2) * 60 -- or 600.- You need to periodically update the clock (either after every
wait()or faster if you want to use the RunService).
- You need to periodically update the clock (either after every
- Set up the gui (ex in StarterGui)
- Get a LocalScript that updates the numbers in the gui
- A mix of modulus and division is useful when doing time management -- ex, say you wanted to convert 153 seconds into seconds and minutes?
math.floor(153/60) == 2and153 % 60 == 33. You can then combine the two numbers, ex usingstring.format("%s:%s", minutes, seconds)to get2:33.
- A mix of modulus and division is useful when doing time management -- ex, say you wanted to convert 153 seconds into seconds and minutes?
- If you have FilteringEnabled on and aren't just using
workspace.DistributedGameTime, you'll need to use a RemoteFunction to ask for the time (possibly only once, depending on how you advance the time on the server). You will need to keep the value up-to-date on the local script (which is easy if it's progressing in real time as you can just base it off oftick().)