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Playwright. has RPG Developer Bakin

16 Jul, 2023 @ 2:12am

Is it possible to do a date system in Bakin?

TLDR, something like the Persona games.
On a greater scale there's a calendar system; NPCs, events, items and side quests on a map (say, a supermarket you can visit in every in-game day) may change depending on the day.
On a smaller scale, the day can be divided into say three time periods - morning, afternoon, night. You can perform a set number of actions in each time period, and the time period only changes once you use up your action quota or manually choose to end the period only.
So anyway, is this possible in RPG Bakin?

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sylardean

17 Jul, 2023 @ 5:12am

you cant manipulate the skybox to reflect times of day just yet, tho you can tint screen and stuff but there's no "blend into" feature so the switch to day/night would be instant and look crap.

There absolutely is a way to set up variables and a Common Event timer to check time and days, etc. You'd then work event off that by checking the current day. It's way too much to go into detail here but what I have said above should get you going.
Initially you'd want 1 timer counting 24 hours, 1 common event checking the timer and then changing the days displayed on screen. another event checking the times of day.. morning, afternoon, evening, night, etc.. that's how i'd go about setting something like that up, it's definitely possible in Bakin as it's already been done in SGB.

Playwright. has RPG Developer Bakin

18 Jul, 2023 @ 4:13am

Originally posted by sylardean:
you cant manipulate the skybox to reflect times of day just yet, tho you can tint screen and stuff but there's no "blend into" feature so the switch to day/night would be instant and look crap.

There absolutely is a way to set up variables and a Common Event timer to check time and days, etc. You'd then work event off that by checking the current day. It's way too much to go into detail here but what I have said above should get you going.
Initially you'd want 1 timer counting 24 hours, 1 common event checking the timer and then changing the days displayed on screen. another event checking the times of day.. morning, afternoon, evening, night, etc.. that's how i'd go about setting something like that up, it's definitely possible in Bakin as it's already been done in SGB.

Thanks for the info, guess it's time to learn more about common events