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:
1 | local Lighting = game.Lighting |
2 |
3 | while true do |
4 | Lighting.TimeOfDay = Lighting.TimeOfDay + 15 |
5 | wait(300) |
6 | end |
7 | --this *REGULAR* script is in ServerscriptService |
can someone help me figure this out?
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2 answers
Perhaps you should do this:
01 | local Lighting = game:GetService("Lighting") |
02 |
03 | local TimeIncrement = 1 -- Time starts at 0100h |
04 | while true do |
05 | if (TimeIncrement < 24) then -- ClockTime uses military time so we have to check if TimeIncrement has gone past 24 |
06 | TimeIncrement = TimeIncrement + 1 |
07 | else |
08 | TimeIncrement = 1 -- if TimeIncrement is past 24, reset it to 1, and the process begins again |
09 | end |
10 | Lighting.ClockTime = TimeIncrement -- set the time to TimeIncrement |
11 |
12 | wait(1) -- adjust this to make the day/night cycle faster or slower |
13 | end |
14 |
15 | --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.
1 | local Lighting = game.Lighting |
2 | mam = Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight() -- I shortened the variable the wiki was using. |
3 | -- Also we may not want to start from zero, but where you set it in the studio. |
4 | while true do |
5 | wait(300) -- We wait 300 seconds as before. |
6 | mam = mam + 15 |
7 | Lighting:SetMinutesAfterMidnight(minNorm) |
8 | end |
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