GameBoy Tutorials - Easy Day & Night System

[GameBoy]

Easy Day & Night
I doubt anyone on this board will need to know how to make a Day & Night system but for those still don't know how, this is the common sense day & night system.
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Requirements: To do this you will need to know about switches. AND THATS IT.

Step One: Create a Common Event and title it Day & Night System. Set it to Parallel Process activated when switch (Refer to step 2) is on.

Step Two: Create 5 switches one of the five activating your Day & Night System, the other 4 title them: Morning, Day, Evening, Night

Step Three: In your Day & Night system common event create a cycle event. Inside the cycle event you'll create your day and night system. Below I have a template that makes everything straight foward, and if you can't understand it, you shouldn't be making RM2K games.

<>CYCLE
<>Change Switch:[XXX:Morning]-ON Set
<>Set Screen Tone:[Rxxx,Gxxx,Rxxx,Sxxx] Pick your own color tone
<>Wait: xx.xs Set your own wait time for how long you want morning to last
<>Change Switch:[XXX:Morning]-OFF Set
<>Change Switch:[XXX:Day]-ON Set
<>Set Screen Tone:[Rxxx,Gxxx,Rxxx,Sxxx] Pick your own color tone
<>Wait: xx.xs Set your own wait time for how long you want day to last
<>Change Switch:[XXX:Day]-OFF Set
<>Change Switch:[XXX:Evening]-ON Set
<>Set Screen Tone:[Rxxx,Gxxx,Rxxx,Sxxx] Pick your own color tone
<>Wait: xx.xs Set your own wait time for how long you want evening to last
<>Change Switch:[XXX:Evening]-OFF Set
<>Change Switch:[XXX:Night]-ON Set
<>Set Screen Tone:[Rxxx,Gxxx,Rxxx,Sxxx] Pick your own color tone
<>Wait: xx.xs Set your own wait time for how long you want night to last
<>Change Switch:[XXX:Night]-OFF Set
<>
:End Cycle
<>
LAST STEP: And that should do it. You can add any other extras if you want. Like activating pictures when a certain time period turn on.

Comments: I have tested this over and over and using this sytem in my game. But if you see anything wrong/can't get it to work, don't be afraid to tell/ask. 8)

[Blue Barry Jam]

You make me laugh. You're so pretty.

[GameBoy]

Blue said:

You make me laugh. You're so pretty.

Ok...You lost me there buddy...Like my sig?

[Magi]

BBJ doesn't know what he wants. Just be happy this is one of his more sensable posts...

The tutorial is good, it makes the process simple and even shows the actions required. If/when we finally get the main site up, maybe I'll add this tutorial on it, if that's okay with you.

[GameBoy]

Yeah no problem. Just put me in the creds.

[Magi]

Of course, we give credit where it's due.

This time I'm thinking of talking to Paul about either making the Game Making section of the Palace either smaller or expanding it into a general category. Whatever happens it will be there, and hopefully your tutorial too.

[Smaug]

yeah that's an awesome set. I've been working with rm2k/rm2k3 for a couple of years now and I've never tried a day/night system cuz I was far too lazy. But I'm gonna use this definetly.