Hi,

I'm wondering, with the variable GameHour, if i want to check if it is before Midnight, do i put "Gamehour < 0" or "Gamehour < 24" in the conditions of my spell? As my werewolf mod requires to check that for changing at the turn of a new day.

Thanks

Soul Limit

You'd probably be better off using GameDay.

Int iGameDayGlobalVariable Property GameDay AutoEvent SomeEvent() ; When your stuff starts	iGameDay = GameDay.GetValueInt()EndEventEvent SomeOtherEvent()	If GameDay.GetValueInt() > iGameDay ; It is the next day		;  ?After midnight?	EndIfEndEvent

Okay, but this is done in the conditions of the effect in the spell, so would this still be possible to do there rather than in code?

Sure. ActiveMagicEffect scripts aren't bound to anything though, so you'd want to create an iGameDayGLOB, then set it with Papyrus' http://www.creationkit.com/SetValueInt_-_GlobalVariable from the ActiveMagicEffect script and check (via the http://www.creationkit.com/GetGlobalValue condition function) for GameDay > iGameDayGLOB.

okay, but the code won't run though until it is a new day, so where would I set the value of iGameDay?

Set it in the Active magic effect OnEffectStart event.

Incidentally, I believe active magic effects are bound - to the actor that is experiencing the effect. It's just that the data gets destroyed when the spell stops running though. But if you have an effect that's going to last for several days and you want to modify the effects as time passes, you should be able to store the data as a local variable.

That has the added advantage of making a spell that works on NPCs as well as on the player.

I get that, but I cannot check if a new day has arrived in the OnEffectStart event if the effect won't start until a new day has arrived can I?

EDIT - thinking about it, while this would be useful for changing into a werewolf, it would not help with changing out, as it simply needs to check if it is between 6:01am and 23:59, as these are the times when the player changes out of being a werewolf.

So I guess my original question would remain, which is - Should I use 24 or 0 to represent Midnight when needing to check if the time is before Midnight?

But they're using the effect's condition functions to check and there's no way to check said local variable of the ActiveMagicEffect script from there (or with Papyrus from elsweyr), unlike a global. Filling a ReferenceAlias (or aliases) with the actors would enable both...

If going that route, you'd want '> 6 && < 24'

There's a function on the wiki that returns the hour of the day. Although you might be better off with the current game time as a floating point days-since-game-start value and doing the math yourself.

http://www.creationkit.com/Function_for_Time_of_Day

You can use http://www.creationkit.com/RegisterForSingleUpdateGameTime_-_Form to get a wakeup call in however many hours you need.

@Justin: well, if everything is done within the effect, it doesn't matter so much.

Externally ... can you not just cast the actor reference as the MagicEffect script in question and access it that way? Much as you'd do with quests?

I hope so or I'm going to need to re-think some plans of mine

"cannot cast a actor to a bagofholdingspellscript, types are incompatible" (PapyrusCompiler.exe)

... because it extends magic effect. And the get Nth effect function doesn't exist for actors. Pity, it would have been a good way to persistently store data on actors without needing to keep them in a quest alias.

That said, I could probably use an OnHit event and a harmless spell to get an active magic effect to yeild up its payload. I wouldn't need it for long, just long enough to repopulate the relevant alias and ...

Sorry, drifting way WAY off topic here

I'm generally using <= 23 to make something be true until exactly midnight.

is gamehour done in exact hours then? so no 23.59 for instance?

GameHour is a float global while GameDay is an integer.

Using that code snippet can I trigger a quest stage with it? So the next day a stage advances? What would the trigger code look like?