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Is it possible to make textures that change when it becomes 'night time' on a map?
So far the only thing that changes is lighting.

I guess one way is to have basically a timed 'slideshow' of textures on every surface, but the timing might be a bit tricky, would be better if it ran off server time that positions the 'sun' in the 'sky'.

Changing the texture no, changing the color with dynamic colors yes.

It'll still have to get timed manually though, right?

Yes, you would have to get it synced up.

Ok. Thanks for the help.

I think this is definitely possible with ridiculously long timing (period) of an alpha channel sequence in a pair of dynamic colors. Similar to the MoFo billboards.
However, clients determine the day/night time, not servers, so you never know when the player's client will be in day or night.
Now.. If you also used dyncols on a sky dome....

Optic Delusion wrote:However, clients determine the day/night time, not servers, so you never know when the player's client will be in day or night.

These two options exist for bzfs. Paired up with a proper _latitude/_longitude setting, wouldn't they allow that to work?

But couldn't the client then change their "time of day" using '+/-" defeating the -synctime ?

in my experience, I've never gotten -synctime to work. I even tried tricks that I saw Trepan use, (when I used /saveworld on his maps), like -synctime 7777.
-synclocation is new to me. Is it new to 2.4 ? I always set -latitude and -longitude.
If someone does get this to work, I'd be interested to know the trick that i couldn't figure out. Maybe it was just that I missed -synclocation.

joevano wrote:But couldn't the client then change their "time of day" using '+/-" defeating the -synctime ?

From what I understand, when the server has -synctime, the client cannot control the time of day.