Complex Lighting Cycle

[jolly rapids]

Made with @near swallow's help

Supports different hours for Nighttime and daytime, as well as Synchronization across clients.

[jolly rapids]

Alright that looks nicer

Complex Lighting Cycle

[near swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/weskerdbd-albertwesker-wesker-dbd-deadbydaylight-gif-26381972

[jolly rapids]

im still baffled at how you figured out the solution so quick

lol

[near swallow]

i visualized it like a two part round timer

[jolly rapids]

smart

[polar vortex]

👀

[distant torrent]

You could've also done this granted it wouldn't have a couple features but it'll still be synchronized across clients (unless I missed something)

local Lighting = game:GetService('Lighting');
local RunService = game:GetService('RunService');

local serverTime = game:GetServerTimeNow();
local serverDelta = serverTime - os.clock();

local cycleDuration = 300; -- in seconds
local hoursPerSecond = 24 / cycleDuration;

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
  local deltaTime = os.clock() + serverDelta;
  local clockTime = (deltaTime * hoursPerSecond) % 24;
  Lighting.ClockTime = clockTime;
end)

[jolly rapids]

No this is different

the one we made supports having a different length for Daytime vs Nighttime

[distant torrent]

yeah, "it wouldn't have a couple features"

[jolly rapids]

EG, you could have 5 minutes when the sun is out, and 10 minutes when its night

[near swallow]

so I'm assuming the most elegant implementation then would be to just use GetServerTimeNow instead of having a remote handler on the server side

makes sense...

[distant torrent]

ya, it’s intended to be accurate to the millisecond, if it’s not then Roblox’ll fix it

[polar vortex]

I would say it's 99.9% sync

there will be always delay

[flint wedge]

I use the sin wave to adjust how long it should be day and night and to prolong the sunrise and sunsets

[jolly rapids]

yeah but that's a lot more complicated

this feels more elegant

[jolly rapids]

How would you go about this implementation

[near swallow]

I kinda get how that would work but I don't see how the sine wave would prolong the sunrise and sunsets

[jolly rapids]

@near swallow I was just working on an addition to this, and tried out implementing this

I compared the

script activity

using GetServerTimeNow

to the Delta time method

[near swallow]

any finds?

[jolly rapids]

and GetServerTimeNow maxed out at 2% script activity, whereas DeltaTime maxed out at 0.7%

that's 0.7% with invoking each day cycle btw.

wait hold on

one second

one second

[near swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/twd-the-governor-the-walking-dead-gif-22008300

[jolly rapids]

Yeah nvm GetServerTimeNow is slightly better