Adding time of day

[Jex =TE= 0]

Been looking for last 2 hours for this which I thought would be simple but instead is turning out to be infuriating. All I want to do is add a time to start the mission in the lobby. I've been to many websites and what they write don't work. My latest attempt was this...

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Time Of Day

First off, set the time in the editor to 12am.

Open up your description.ext and add the following lines preferably after the debriefing=1 etc lines:

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titleParam1 = "Difficulty";

valuesParam1[] = {1, 2, 3};

defValueParam1 = 1;

textsParam1[] = {"Default", "Hard", "Rambo"};

titleParam2 = "Time of Day";

valuesParam2[] = {1, 2, 3, 4};

defValueParam2 = 2;

textsParam2[] = {"Morning", "Mid Day", "Evening", "Night"};

Then add the following to your init.sqs for Time of day:

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? (Param2 == 1) : skipTime -6

? (Param2 == 3) : skipTime 6

? (Param2 == 4) : skipTime 12

Byut I just get errors. Can anyone give me a definitive, "yes this works" answer?

I'm not using the difficulty part.

Thx.

[squeeze 22]

I'd say "yes" this would work, what errors are you getting?

[Rav_Raven 8]

You need change:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

? (Param2 == 1) : skipTime 6

? (Param2 == 2) : skipTime 12

? (Param2 == 3) : skipTime 16

? (Param2 == 4) : skipTime 20

[squeeze 22]

You need change:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

? (Param2 == 1) : skipTime 6

? (Param2 == 2) : skipTime 12

? (Param2 == 3) : skipTime 16

? (Param2 == 4) : skipTime 20

if he changed it like that then it wouldn't match his textsParam2 and he doesn't need to check (Param2 == 2) because thats the default time.

[Namikaze 0]

Not applicable to this discussion. Edited out to avoid confusion or complication.

[squeeze 22]

description.ext

what errors are you getting Jex?

[Jex =TE= 0]

description.ext  

what errors are you getting Jex?

Hey Squeeze

Ok i have this for Init.sqs

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//Time

? (Param1 == 0400) : skipTime 16

? (Param1 == 1800) : skipTime 6

? (Param1 == 2200) : skipTime 10

and this for Descr.ext

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//Time Start

titleParam1 = "Time:";

valuesParam1[] = {0400,1200,1800,2200};

defValueParam1 = 1200;

textsParam1[] = {"First Light","Midday","Last light", "Night"};

It then thros up invalid expression line 3 or something. It doesn't seem to like skip time 16 as well

I spent 3 hours looking at different forums on a goggle search and each "suggestion" was bogus. It seems everyone has a different way but they never work. No wonder hardly anyone makes missions for this game

thanks again

[squeeze 22]

comments in *.sqs should start with ; not //

if you didn't know this then maybe there is alot more wrong then you think.

make a small mission with just what you have here and see if it works.

[ck-claw 1]

Try this in your Description.Ext

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">//To use Time of Day set Mission Time to 12 Noon

titleParam1 = "Time of Day:";

valuesParam1[] = {10, 100, 1000, 2000};

defValueParam1 = 100;

textsParam1[] = {"Morning", "Day", "Evening", "Night"};

[Namikaze 0]

description.ext  

what errors are you getting Jex?

Oh pfft!  My mistake, I didn't see that part about description.ext.  Honestly, it's the quotes inside the quote, and the comments that don't have any syntax to them that makes it so unreadable.

I'll edit out my last post, since it's irrelevant to this discussion.  Forgive me!  

[Jex =TE= 0]

It's Working!!

Thanks everyone who offered advice. My mistake was simple - my init.sqs had somehow changed to .sqf so I changed it back, turned the // in ;; and it's perfect. So the end result is...

Init.sqs

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;;Time

? (Param1 == 0400) : skipTime 16

? (Param1 == 1800) : skipTime 6

? (Param1 == 2200) : skipTime 10

Description.ext

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//Time Start

titleParam1 = "Time:";

valuesParam1[] = {0400,1200,1800,2200};

defValueParam1 = 1200;

textsParam1[] = {"First Light","Midday","Last light", "Night"};

Apologies if the first post wasn't clear but when you don't know what you're doing, you don't know when your doing something wrong lol.

Cheers guys!