Time events

[SpecOp9 0]

Alright,

Here is my question:

Ingame at 5:00 PM, I want a chopper to lift off. It's as simple as that.

Other examples would be, at 3:00 PM I want a group of soldiers to wake up, and run into a boat and do whatever, drive around aimlessly let's say.

I just need to know how to make scripts go off depending on what time it is ingame.

[RED 0]

Use the daytime command:

?Daytime > 20: hint "The time is 8pm"

RED

[T J 0]

There are several ways you can call the time in OFP.

As Red says, "daytime" gives you the real time.

You can call that day/date/hour/second by using the

"missionstart".

You can also work with time elapsed during the mission, that is, since "missionstart", as the game sets up a global variable named "TIME".

So to make an event happen 5 minutes after the mission starts, you could do;

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">? (TIME >=300): Truck setdammage 1

Finally, you can call the amount of time that has elapsed in a script. In a script a reserved variable called "_time" is setup.

So for example, you could have a script start, and then have it wait for a minute etc. Maybe for a scud launch etc, you could set off the various stages after specific timed stages.

The only thing to watch is that you dont look for a definite time, eg.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">?_time ==200: do thus

As there is the chance that the game will miss it. So use

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> ?_time >=200: do this

Hope that helps a little.

TJ

[bn880 5]

Missionstart is available only in MP, at least in 1.75 that's what I found.

[SpecOp9 0]

Thanx guys I'll give it a try

[nubbin 0]

is there any way to do this with a trigger in game?

Can I add this to any existing script, (just copying and pasting the line). or do I have to make a new sqs file, then have something in the init file refer to it?

I want a trigger / script that ends the mission in a half hour after mission start.

Could someone give me an example please?

[RED 0]

Make a trigger type End1 or what ever you need, then put this in the condition field:

time == (60 * 30)

That will end the mission 30 mins after the start of the mission.

RED

[nubbin 0]

cool, thanks, I'll try tonight.

[nubbin 0]

worked perfectly. Thank you.

[SSG Plazmoid 0]

wow I didn't know _time was built in. You know how many times I've wanted to run timed events and tried

_time = time

@ (time - _time > 20):do something

and of course _time changed right along with time so now I use _myTime to store a time.

Anyhow, I wanted to ask what some tricky things you could do with _time?

[hardrock 1]

_time tells you the time since the start of the script