RP clock

[dpoolas]

Is there anyway to make a clock that goes at a faster scale, so that you could actually RP with the time. Like every 3 or 4 seconds is a minute.

[Entoros]

A useful way of doing this is by using [b][url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=G.SetGlobalInt]G.SetGlobalInt [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b] and [b][url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=G.GetGlobalInt]G.GetGlobalInt [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b].

On the server, you would set the global int of "rp_clock" or something to whatever time value you wanted, and then that's synchronized with the client who can output it in a clock.

[Lord Ned]

You could do that, though it seems sort of unnecessary to set it every 3 or 4 seconds. What if it was set when the player spawned, and then re-set every hour, allowing the client to 'interpolate' between the hours, and getting re-synced on the hour (Fake hours for all of these) if they get off.

[Lord Ned]

Right but couldn't there be issues with the client getting the wrong time if he hangs up or something?

[theVendetta]

[lua]
if SERVER then
function GM:InitPostEntity()
SetGlobalInt("Hour",0) -- start times when server loads
SetGlobalInt("Min",0) -- start times when server loads
SetGlobalInt("Sec",0) -- start times when server loads
end

function GM:Think()
if GetGlobalInt("Sec") < 60 then
SetGlobalInt("Sec", GetGlobalInt("Sec") + 0.1) --Change 0.1 to how fast you want it to be, it is how fast the game ticks.
else
SetGlobalInt("Sec", 0)
SetGlobalInt("Min", GetGlobalInt("Min") + 1)
end
if GetGlobalInt("Min") >= 60 then
SetGlobalInt("Sec",0)
SetGlobalInt("Min",0)
SetGlobalInt("Hour", GetGlobalInt("Hour") + 1)
end
if GetGlobalInt("Hour") >= 24 then
SetGlobalInt("Sec", 0)
SetGlobalInt("Min",0)
SetGlobalInt("Hour",0)
end
end
else
function clockhud()
draw.SimpleText("Role Play Time", "Default", ScrW()*0.035, ScrH()*0.01, Color( 255, 104, 86, 255 ),0,0)
draw.SimpleText(GetGlobalInt("Hour")..":"..GetGlobalInt("Min")..":"..math.Round(GetGlobalInt("Sec")), "Default", ScrW()*0.05, ScrH()*0.026, Color( 255, 104, 86, 255 ),0,0)
end
hook.Add("HUDPaint", "clockhud", clockhud)
end
[/lua]

Into Shared...works nicely, I'm going to use it lol

[ralle105]

CurTime() is synced, no? Just multiply it by how many times faster you want the time to be.

[Lily]

Thats what i use, for example, you can use this

math.floor((CurTime()/4)%1440)

It gets you the current minute of the day, 4 seconds being a minute, you can run it on both sides without any networking cost, and its synced

[Jvs]

[QUOTE=iRzilla;26823696]Is it wise to set a global integer every second?[/QUOTE]
[del]SetGlobalInt is not networked,i think that all it does is to set the _G["VariableName"]/_G.VariableName to the value.[/del]

[Lord Ned]

[b][url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=G.CurTime]G.CurTime [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b] says that "Gets the current time in seconds since server start. Mainly used for timers. Only runs while players are connected."

Does this mean that if you try to use CurTime on a client when no clients exist it'll return nil?

[Zephilinox]

[QUOTE=iRzilla;26827567]Read that back to your self.. That makes no sense at all.[/QUOTE]

Sure it does, if you have a dedicated server you can have 0 players on it.

[Lord Ned]

And you can tell it to run code on clients.

[editline]20th December 2010[/editline]

I think in my original question I meant to ask if CurTime() was run when no clients were connected to a dedicated server.

[theVendetta]

The shit I posted never stops :smug: