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Christmas Countdown

Season's greetings once again from TheFreeman193! A (fairly) simple digital Christmas countdown timer.

-Toggleable digital countdown timer displaying days, hours, minutes and seconds.
-Optional colour change related to time remaining during last 48 hours (white -> yellow -> orange -> red).
-Top/Bottom of screen display options.
-Customisable background colour and opacity for the timer.
-Optional animated seasonal messages/displays on Christmas Day, during the Christmas period (after 25th) and on New Year's Day.
-Customisable display length (in seconds) for the seasonal messages.
-Online/offline modes - The seasonal messages can be loaded from the internet or locally from the addon file.

xmascountdown_<setting> <value>

alt 1/0 Alternate display mode (1=top, 0=bottom)
colchange 1/0 Change colour in last 48 hours (see description above)
displaytime 3+ Number of seconds to display messages for (minimum 3, default=15)
enabled 1/0 Enables/disables the countdown timer
notify 1/0 Enables/disables messages (see description above)
col_r 0-255 Red value of timer background (default=0)
col_g 0-255 Green value of timer background (default=0)
col_b 0-255 Blue value of timer background (default=0)
col_a 0-255 Alpha (opacity) of timer background (default=210)
online 1/0 Whether to use local cache or online image data (1=online,0=local,default=0)

xmascountdown_<command> [options]

col_reset
-Resets the background colour of the timer.
stopmessage
-Removes any currently active message.
rebuildpanel
-Rebuilds the countdown display and removes any active messages. Checks the local image cache.
-To be used when the script is loaded/reloaded during gameplay (i.e. for hot-swapping)
clearcache
-Clears the local image cache from "data/xmc".
-You should run the rebuildpanel command above to rebuild the cache before using offline mode.

showmessage [current|xmas|holidays|newyear|snow]
current -Displays the currently appropriate message (if any).
xmas -Displays the Christmas message.
holidays -Displays the seasonal message (25th-31st).
newyear -Displays the New Year's Day message.
snow -Displays just the snow overlay used in the messages.

If you're having issues with displaying the timer, make sure you have xmascountdown_enabled set to 1 and then put xmascountdown_rebuildpanel into your console.

Released under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/