Time reading

[Joliplex]

Hi there!

I am making a top-down adventure game, and when I get the normal body done, I'll do some events there. I mean time-based events.

So I'm asking that is here any kind of "time reading" from the os clock? Something like this?

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function love.update()
     if(love.time.readMonth() == 3) then     --If the month is March...
          if(love.time.ReadDay() == 19) then    --...and if the day is 19...
               doEventOne()     --...do event one!
          elseif(love.time.readHour == 20) then     --Else, if the hour is 20 pm (any day in March)...
               doEventTwo()     --...do event two!
          end
     end
end

Thank you!

[Jasoco]

This could be useful:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/OsLibraryTutorial

[coffee]

Hi there!

I am making a top-down adventure game, and when I get the normal body done, I'll do some events there. I mean time-based events.

So I'm asking that is here any kind of "time reading" from the os clock? Something like this?

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function love.update()
     if(love.time.readMonth() == 3) then     --If the month is March...
          if(love.time.ReadDay() == 19) then    --...and if the day is 19...
               doEventOne()     --...do event one!
          elseif(love.time.readHour == 20) then     --Else, if the hour is 20 pm (any day in March)...
               doEventTwo()     --...do event two!
          end
     end
end

Thank you!

When you talked about "time-based events" in a rpg/adventure I supposed you were talking about implement events like pop up a message dialog about x time. You for sure know that you should use dt time measure for that events and dont need to compare with OS clock/calender right? Just checking, your "time-based events" actually look more like "date-based events".

[Joliplex]

When you talked about "time-based events" in a rpg/adventure I supposed you were talking about implement events like pop up a message dialog about x time. You for sure know that you should use dt time measure for that events and dont need to compare with OS clock/calender right? Just checking, your "time-based events" actually look more like "date-based events".

Yes, I meant date-based events (like at Christmas Eve you get 100 coins, a vanity item and accessable quest). That os.date('!*t') looks good, but can you use those infos as values, like this:

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> table.foreach(os.date('!*t'), print)
hour    23
min     00
wday    5     --Is this weekday?
year    2012
yday    62     --Is this yearday?
month   3
sec     10
day     4
isdst   false     --What is this?

> if(month == 12 && day == 24) then coins = coins + 100     --Can you use && or || in Lua?

[tentus]

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> if(month == 12 && day == 24) then coins = coins + 100     --Can you use && or || in Lua?

You should use and and or.

[Robin]

To recap:

Is this weekday?

Yes.

Is this yearday?

Yes.

What is this?

Whether it's daylight saving time (summer time).

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if month == 12 and day == 24 then
    coins = coins + 100
end

[Jasoco]

Make sure to put in a safety to make it so it only gives you these special things once else you have people launching and quitting the game over and over to get a million coins.