Gametime

Latest revision as of 00:49, 31 July 2012

Time spent since game was started. Keeped from level to level.

Blood Omnicide gametime constants:

• Kain starts a game at day 0 ~8 PM
• When Kain is being ressurected as vampire, gametime: day 4 ~8 PM
• 1 game minute per real second
• 60 minutes per hour
• 24 hours per day
• 365 days per year
• 28 days per moon cycle
• moon cycle origin - day 9, 12 AM

[edit] Representation

Generally gametime is represented by vector:

• x - minutes
• y - hours
• z - days since game started

But in scripts, gametime may be represented in different ways.

[edit] Vector string (gametime)

// day 5, 21 hour 31 minutes
'32 21 5'

[edit] Float (daytime)

Days spent since game start + day fraction:

// day 5, 21 hour 31 minutes
5.8965

[edit] Float (yeartime)

Year spent since game start + year fraction:

// day 5, 21 hour 31 minutes
0.0161549

[edit] Moon time

Current moon cycle fraction:

// day 5, 21 hour 31 minutes
0.5499

Moon time as phases:

• 0 to 0.04 - new moon
• 0.04 to 0.5 - raise
• 0.5 to 0.54 - full moon
• 0.54 to 1 - fall

[edit] Console commands (debug only)

 cmd gametime : show current time

 timeflow speed : show current time

 timetest "gametime" : start a level with certain gametime string (restart required)