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Possible to change time of day?

Cherry Hotaling
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Join date: 25 Feb 2007
Posts: 86
04-10-2008 13:27
I was wondering if it is possible to change the time of day in the region. I wanted something where I can create weather and the sim gets darker or goes to nighttime settings.

Thanks
-Lady Cherry
Johan Laurasia
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Join date: 31 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,394
04-10-2008 17:35
From: Cherry Hotaling
I was wondering if it is possible to change the time of day in the region. I wanted something where I can create weather and the sim gets darker or goes to nighttime settings.

Thanks
-Lady Cherry


Depends on who's point of view you're trying to change. Anyone can change the settings on their viewer under any condition, so there's never a guarantee what someone is looking at. As far as having the ability to change the time of day that the server thinks it is (the region default), you cannot in any circumstance make changes on mainland, and can on an island if you're the owner, or perhaps (not 100 percent sure), have estate privileges. I think you can, but not totally sure about that. There's no scripting way (afaik) to make changes to region time of day either.
Cherry Hotaling
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Join date: 25 Feb 2007
Posts: 86
04-11-2008 08:46
I am an island owner.

So there is no way that with a script I can set it to nighttime in the region settings?
(I didnt see anything in the Wiki)

-Lady Cherry
Hewee Zetkin
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Join date: 20 Jul 2006
Posts: 2,702
04-11-2008 11:35
Correct. The best you can do is set it to night all the time and try to use textures and local lighting and such to compensate when you want it to be "day". Doesn't really work well. At all.
Sir Defiant
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Join date: 9 Dec 2006
Posts: 16
05-07-2008 03:32
You can set permanant night atm in the "region" menu. With the further implementation of windlight region owners will, as I understand it, be able to define their own sky, length of day, time of day etc etc, but that is in the future.