Condition of Presence

[themanthatcan 10]

I'm designing a mission which is set either at night or during the day. (only two options). Now in the night a want fewer units than in the day time. So im after abit of help.

So i have a group, there are 5 soldiers in total. And i only want the squad leader to patrol at night. So how would i go about doing this.

I have looked into using the Condition of Presence part of the units and seeing if that works, but it doesn't. I've used it before on a mission, where if you selected easy it didn't spawn a lot of the soldiers. But i dont know the variable for night and day ?

can anyone help

Thanks in advance

[Big Dawg KS 6]

dayTime < 5 || dayTime > 20

You can play with the values if 5:00 AM to 8:00 PM isn't good enough.

[themanthatcan 10]

I've added that line of text to the soldiers condition of presence, and nothing happens. He isn't there when it's night time or day time. Am i doing something wrong ?

[Muzzleflash 111]

The night or day options is that a parameter? If, how do you change the time? With skipTime?

[f2k sel 164]

Doesn't Condition of Presence only work at the time the unit is created.

When I test the above code it works fine but only at the start of the mission, time changes after that have no effect on the unit.

[Big Dawg KS 6]

I've added that line of text to the soldiers condition of presence, and nothing happens. He isn't there when it's night time or day time. Am i doing something wrong ?

Well how are you setting the time of day? With skipTime? If so, you need to be aware that the condition of presence fields are evaulated before the init fields and init.sqf. I'm guessing you're using a mission param for setting the time. If that's the case, you have to check that variable instead of dayTime, since the skipTime wouldn't have taken effect yet when the conditon is checked.