[RunUO 2.0 RC1] Time System

[Asmir3]

Nice job on this new system and keep up the great updates. I just have one question? On the last version for runuo 1.0 when Installed it sometimes it would get like really dark, so dark that u can hardly see anything even with you holding a torch. Is this on this new version as well?

 

[Morxeton]

Nice job on this new system and keep up the great updates. I just have one question? On the last version for runuo 1.0 when Installed it sometimes it would get like really dark, so dark that u can hardly see anything even with you holding a torch. Is this on this new version as well?

Thanks.

That is the Darkest Hour. It is meant to get super dark, however it is configurable. You can change the light level of the Darkest Hour, so it does not get as dark, or you can disable it alltogether. To disable it, type [TS SET UseDarkestHour false.

However, the Darkest Hour does add a cool effect. Especially since the latest version supports overriding nightsight and allowing murderers to see better during the Darkest Hour over blues, giving them an advantage and giving the sense of danger.

The next version will have a basic spawner engine that will be used to spawn evil spirits during the Darkest Hour.

 

[Liacs]

...always when I just installed the last version, you come out with a new one

 

[BaronVallyr]

I might have missed it, but how does this interact with the razor light levels filter? Does it over ride it the filters forcing players to deal with low light?

 

[XenoNeo]

big problem

For some odd reason after putting this all together and restarting, it worked.. The issue lies with this: I then shutdown the server and restart my pc, I then load my server back up and I get an error saying Lightcycle already exists... so I look in the scripts to see why... I found a folder in RunUO/scripts/ called ~Modded ... now if I remove it I get massive errors like mad... in the modded folder was all the things you said to mod on your instructions to the distro files... it duped all the needed to be moded distros... Why is that and how do I go about fixing this?

ERM! Forget what I just posted here... I found out why and it is 5am no sleep yet... LOL!

 

[Liacs]

hmmm...
when I write [time it shows me

The time is 8.31AM on March 10th in the year 1000. The moon is $mp$. The moon is $mp$.

Can you help me here?
Thanks

Lia

 

[Morxeton]

hmmm...
when I write [time it shows me

The time is 8.31AM on March 10th in the year 1000. The moon is $mp$. The moon is $mp$.

Can you help me here?
Thanks

Lia

You need to use $mp-#$ where # is the index number of the moon. For example, moon #0, you would do $mp-0$.

 

[Pyro-Tech]

where/how do i configure the time to take longer....i don't want to use UO time, but not real time either....

i was looking for how to set it up where i had about 2-4 hours of day/night....what variable do i need to change for the timer to be different?

EDIT: Also, what variable do i change to set how affected nightsight is during night/darkest hour?

 

[Morxeton]

where/how do i configure the time to take longer....i don't want to use UO time, but not real time either....

i was looking for how to set it up where i had about 2-4 hours of day/night....what variable do i need to change for the timer to be different?

EDIT: Also, what variable do i change to set how affected nightsight is during night/darkest hour?

[TS SET TimerSpeed # is the variable you would want to use.

TimerSpeed (in seconds) is the speed of which the master timer performs its ticks. Increasing this number will result in time passing more slowly.

One thing that I overlooked was... Checking all the world lampposts occurs on the master timer. During the Darkest Hour, it checks lampposts on every master timer tick to determine if it should toggle it on/off or do nothing to give that evil effect. Increasing the timer speed will result in the random light outage occurring less often. I will need to have this occur on a timer of it's own so that an increased/decreased timer speed value won't affect this.

The variables for nightsight effectiveness during nighttime and darkest hour are:

[TS SETEMO # NightSightDarkestHourReduction <1-100%>
[TS SETEMO # NightSightLevelReduction <1-100%>

Be sure that the UseNightSightDarkestHourOverride and UseNightSightOverride is set to true for both the master variable (using [TS SET) and the EMO.

 

[Pyro-Tech]

did you catch my edit by chance??

and thanks for the info...

And one other suggestion i would like to make to you cause i have ran into this problem for me...and i htink it would be nice honestly.

If you look at david's sleeping NPC script...in the custom release archive (works already with 2.0) i think it would be a nice addon/plugin for Night time NPC's....but the problem with his, is that i BELIEVE, it is time based....not 100% sure, getting ready to test it some so...

but i think tieing in something like that like you are planning with a spawn system would be a great addition.

and thanks for the info...i guess you'll have a new version out here in a bit though so it doesn't really matter lol

EDIT: NVM...you did....i hate editing lol

EDIT 2: oh that's why i couldn't find it prolly....i haven't messed with setting EMO's yet...

what's the "range" of emo's? and is there a default that an area falls to if there is no emo set?

 

[Liacs]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Liacs
hmmm...
when I write [time it shows me

Code:
The time is 8.31AM on March 10th in the year 1000. The moon is $mp$. The moon is $mp$.Can you help me here?
Thanks

Lia

You need to use $mp-#$ where # is the index number of the moon. For example, moon #0, you would do $mp-0$.

So where do I set that? How in game?

 

[Morxeton]

So where do I set that? How in game?

In my example, there would be no moon #0, since the moon indexes start at 1. Just so you know

[TS SET TimeFormat is the variable you need to set. For example:

[TS SET TimeFormat The time is $hr-ap$:$mn-2$ $ap$ on day $da$ of month $mo$ of year $yr$. The moon is $mp-1$.

Let's say it is 3:15 PM on 1/23/2007 and the moonphase is waxing half. The above time format would display as:

"The time is 3:15 PM on day 23 of month 1 of year 2007. The moon is waxing half."

If the string is too long to enter for [TS SET, you may use [TS APPEND to append to a string variable. For example:

[TS SET TimeFormat The time is $hr-ap$:$mn-2$ $ap$ on day $da$ of month
[TS APPEND TimeFormat $mo$ of year $yr$. The moon is $mp-1$.

The above would set the variable as = "The time is $hr-ap$:$mn-2$ $ap$ on day $da$ of month $mo$ of year $yr$. The moon is $mp-1$."

It will append to the end of the string.

 

[Liacs]

*pats her forehead*
yeah, there was something like that. Thanks a lot. I am just too blonde

Lia

 

[Cheetah2003]

Having a new problem with this regarding Nightsight.

When my character, wearing an item that bestows Nightsight, teleports to a place which is currently DarkestHour, the nightsight effect is removed. If I take the item off and put it back on, the effect is back again.

Would be nice if it either totally overrides Nightsight items, or leaves them alone (customizable?)

 

[Morxeton]

Having a new problem with this regarding Nightsight.

When my character, wearing an item that bestows Nightsight, teleports to a place which is currently DarkestHour, the nightsight effect is removed. If I take the item off and put it back on, the effect is back again.

Would be nice if it either totally overrides Nightsight items, or leaves them alone (customizable?)

I am having problems reproducing this.

Here is what I did (I am in EMO #2 in Trammel):

[TS SETEMO 2 UseNightSightDarkestHourOverride true
[TS SETEMO 2 NightSightDarkestHourReduction 100
[TS SETTIME 8:00 (because of where I am located and the facet adjustment, this is 12:00 AM for my timezone)

I put on a nightsight item, it had no effect. I removed it and put it back on, still no effect.

[SET MAP FELUCCA <target self>

Felucca is 720 minutes behind Trammel, thus it was 12:00 PM. I put on the nightsight item.

[SET MAP TRAMMEL <target self>

I am now teleported from an area not under darkest hour to an area under darkest hour and the effect is removed. I removed the nightsight item and put it back on, and still no effect.

Please give details on what you attempted to produce this problem and I will look into it further.

 

[Cheetah2003]

Well, what I was doing was adding a new item to all the banks in my world. And occasionally when I'd teleport to a bank, everything would go very dark (DarkestHour), I was wearing a body sash with nightsight on it, with my GM character. If I took it off and put it back on, nightsight would begin to work. EDIT: Oh and I don't have UseNightSightDarkestHourOverride set to true. It's false.

Another crasher bug now too, I was talking to a player, and then teleported back to my house and logged off, which promptly crashed the server (first time I've seen this)

[Mar 9 18:59:08] Character 'Srren' disconnected. [cheetah2]
[Mar 9 18:59:08] Error:
[Mar 9 18:59:09] System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.
   at System.Collections.Hashtable.HashtableEnumerator.MoveNext()
   at Server.TimeSystem.Engine.OnSystemTick() in d:\source\c#\RunUO Core Scripts\RunUO Core Scripts\Customs\Engines\Time System\Engine.cs:line 132
   at Server.TimeSystem.Engine.TimeSystemTimer.OnTick() in d:\source\c#\RunUO Core Scripts\RunUO Core Scripts\Customs\Engines\Time System\Engine.cs:line 171
   at Server.Timer.Slice() in d:\source\c#\RunUO\RunUO\Timer.cs:line 507
   at Server.Core.Main(String[] args) in d:\source\c#\RunUO\RunUO\Main.cs:line 503
[Mar 9 18:59:09] Crash: Backing up...done
[Mar 9 18:59:11] Crash: Generating report...done
[Mar 9 18:59:11] Crash: Restarting...done

 

[Morxeton]

Well, what I was doing was adding a new item to all the banks in my world. And occasionally when I'd teleport to a bank, everything would go very dark (DarkestHour), I was wearing a body sash with nightsight on it, with my GM character. If I took it off and put it back on, nightsight would begin to work.

Another crasher bug now too, I was talking to a player, and then teleported back to my house and logged off, which promptly crashed the server (first time I've seen this)

[Mar 9 18:59:08] Character 'Srren' disconnected. [cheetah2]
[Mar 9 18:59:08] Error:
[Mar 9 18:59:09] System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.
   at System.Collections.Hashtable.HashtableEnumerator.MoveNext()
   at Server.TimeSystem.Engine.OnSystemTick() in d:\source\c#\RunUO Core Scripts\RunUO Core Scripts\Customs\Engines\Time System\Engine.cs:line 132
   at Server.TimeSystem.Engine.TimeSystemTimer.OnTick() in d:\source\c#\RunUO Core Scripts\RunUO Core Scripts\Customs\Engines\Time System\Engine.cs:line 171
   at Server.Timer.Slice() in d:\source\c#\RunUO\RunUO\Timer.cs:line 507
   at Server.Core.Main(String[] args) in d:\source\c#\RunUO\RunUO\Main.cs:line 503
[Mar 9 18:59:09] Crash: Backing up...done
[Mar 9 18:59:11] Crash: Generating report...done
[Mar 9 18:59:11] Crash: Restarting...done

Very strange. I can't seem to reproduce the nightsight item bug.

As for the crash bug. I discovered that bug last night and fixed it for the next version. It's because I didn't lock the Data.MobilesTable hashtable before enumerating it. It only crashes just at the right time when someone logs off in the middle of the for loop.

 

[Morxeton]

Is the UseNightSightDarkestHourOverride set to false system wide or in the EMO?

 

[Cheetah2003]

Is the UseNightSightDarkestHourOverride set to false system wide or in the EMO?

SystemWide = true

EMO's are set to false.

 

[Cheetah2003]

As for the crash bug. I discovered that bug last night and fixed it for the next version. It's because I didn't lock the Data.MobilesTable hashtable before enumerating it. It only crashes just at the right time when someone logs off in the middle of the for loop.

Can you tell me what to change where? Don't like my server crashing.