How would I change the Lighting.Timeofday property using a script?
Im trying to make a script change the timeofday variable inside of Lighting. I have been searching on the dev page but I found nothing.
This is the code I tried to do this with:
local Lighting = game.Lighting
while true do
Lighting.TimeOfDay = Lighting.TimeOfDay + 15
wait(300)
end
--this *REGULAR* script is in ServerscriptService
can someone help me figure this out?
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2 answers
Perhaps you should do this:
local Lighting = game:GetService("Lighting")
local TimeIncrement = 1 -- Time starts at 0100h
while true do
if (TimeIncrement < 24) then -- ClockTime uses military time so we have to check if TimeIncrement has gone past 24
TimeIncrement = TimeIncrement + 1
else
TimeIncrement = 1 -- if TimeIncrement is past 24, reset it to 1, and the process begins again
end
Lighting.ClockTime = TimeIncrement -- set the time to TimeIncrement
wait(1) -- adjust this to make the day/night cycle faster or slower
end
--this *REGULAR* script is in ServerscriptService
I hope it helps.
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Looking at the Lighting.TimeOfDay wiki page I saw this piece of text.
Value Type: string [...] A 24 hour string representation of the current time of day used by Lighting. [...] Using TimeOfDay requires the time to be normalized and a string formatted:
In your code you attempt to add 15 to the TimeOfDay. Since the TimeOfDay property is actually a complex string, this will not work as intended. It seems like every 300 seconds you want to progress the time of day by 15 minutes (1/3 timescale nice). Let's tweak the posted example on the wiki (the third code box) to get what we want.
local Lighting = game.Lighting
mam = Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight() -- I shortened the variable the wiki was using.
-- Also we may not want to start from zero, but where you set it in the studio.
while true do
wait(300) -- We wait 300 seconds as before.
mam = mam + 15
Lighting:SetMinutesAfterMidnight(minNorm)
end
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