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I made a Day/Night script and for some reason it didn't work! why?

Asked by 9 years ago

So I made this Day/Night script:

function Timer()
    wait(0.1)
    game.Lighting.TimeOfDay = TimeOfDay + 2
end
while wait(0.1)do
    Timer()
end

This didn't work! can someone tell me why?

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BlueTaslem 18071 Moderation Voter Administrator Community Moderator Super Administrator
9 years ago

You haven't defined TimeOfDay (used on the right side of the = in line 3).

Lua won't guess what you mean. You have to be explicit and unambiguous:

game.Lighting.TimeOfDay = game.Lighting.TimeOfDay + 2;

However according to the Wiki article on TimeOfDay, says TimeOfDay is a string (text), which means you cannot add 2 to it.

If we look at the wiki article on Lighting, we can see there is a number GetMinutesAfterMidnight() method and a SetMinutesAfterMidnight(number minutes) method. We have to use those instead:

game.Lighting:SetMinutesAfterMidnight(
    game.Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight() + 2
)



The wait(0.1) on line 2 of your snippet is probably frivolous. You already have a wait on line 5. If you want the interval to be ever 0.2 seconds, you should just edit the one in the while loop to use that amount.

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Answered by 9 years ago

TimeOfDay is set in this form: num:num:num. For this reason, you cannot add 2. Second of all, you would do game.Lighting.TimeOfDay = game.Lighting.TimeOfDay + 2, not game.Lighting.TimeOfDay = TimeOfDay + 2because you're saying to add 2 from the original time. This is the correct way to do it:

speed = 1
sec = 0
mins = 0
hour = 0
while true do
    game.Lighting.TimeOfDay = ""..hour..":"..mins..":"..sec..""
    sec = sec + (5*speed)
    if sec >= 60 then
        sec = 0
        mins = mins+1
    end
    if mins >= 60 then
        mins = 0
        hour = hour + 1
    end
    if hour >= 24 then
        hour = 0
    end
    wait(0.05)
end

This basically adds one second to the time every 0.05 seconds. I hope this helped!

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