Altering the Speed of Time

[Dingleman]

In San Andreas I have started to make this mod that changes the map to and arctic/iceland setting. I thought it would be a sweet idea to add some lines to the scm and slow down the cycle of the clock in order to make it that day = six months and night = six months, just like at the north and south pole. Is this possible? If so, what opcodes would I need to put this in..?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Adler]

Six months of daytime?? If I was living there I'd have to shoot myself in a couple of days.

 

Anyways, this address (DWORD) stores how many ms = 1 sec. This opcode is setting 1 sec in game time to = 2 sec in real time.

 

 

0A8C: write_memory 0xB7015C size 4 value 2000 virtual_protect 0

 

 

Ummm I guess the math goes like:

 

 

365.242199 days/2 = 182.6211 days182.6211 days*24 hours/day = 4382.9064 hours4382.9064 hours*60 min/hour = 262974.384 min262974.384 min*60 sec/min = 15778463 sec15778463 sec*1000 ms/sec = 15778463000 ms

 

 

but 15778463000 = 0x03AC783D18 in hex which uses 5 bytes not 4 (max for DWORDs) so it wouldn't work if you rewrite that address but who would ever play the game for 6 months? Maybe you should lower that so CJ doesn't get sleep problems.

[coin-god]

I cant think clearly right now (5 am), but I really think there should be a way of doing this without using memory addresses

[Adler]

I guess you could do it the way spaceeinstein did it in his Real Time Clock mod using timers instead of that address.

[ZAZ]

i made a realtimescript one week ago

but the Realtime clock is a problem, because it needs to manipulate the game clock which have a connection to the weather.

It cause a weatherchange every second

I can fix it with a code which freeze the weather and makes weatherchange impossible

The realtime script runs imediately after gameload

and displays the time in hours/minutes/seconds/milliseconds just for verification

the gameclock shows the real time

 

{$CLEO .cs}03A4: name_thread 'REALTIME'[email protected] = [email protected] = [email protected] = 000BF: [email protected] = current_time_hours, [email protected] = [email protected] = 0:time1wait 003F0: enable_text_draw 1045A: text_draw_1number  200.0  60.0 'NUMBER' [email protected]    // value045A: text_draw_1number  150.0  60.0 'NUMBER' [email protected]    // value045A: text_draw_1number  100.0  60.0 'NUMBER' [email protected]    // value045A: text_draw_1number  50.0  60.0 'NUMBER' [email protected]    // [email protected] > 999jf @[email protected] = [email protected] += [email protected] > 59jf @[email protected] = [email protected] += [email protected] == 60jf @[email protected] = [email protected] += [email protected] == 24jf @[email protected] = 0:time200BF: [email protected] = current_time_hours, [email protected] = current_time_minutesif [email protected] == [email protected] == [email protected] == 59jf @time1wait 20000915: unknown_release_weather :time300C0: set_current_time  [email protected]  [email protected]: unknown_release_weatherjump @time1

 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2010 by ZAZ

[Deji]

The memory thing is a much better idea than the primal way... Much more optimized, reduced code, etc. It does it "naturally" with no weather glitches, etc.

[ZAZ]

 

The memory thing is a much better idea than the primal way... Much more optimized, reduced code, etc. It does it "naturally" with no weather glitches, etc.

you're right, but 15778463000 = 0x03AC783D18 as Adler mentioned is counting 3 minutes to change the game clock by one minute

i found values which are working

 

0A8C: write_memory 0xB7015C size 4 value 60000 virtual_protect 0 //-- Realtime   if framelimiter = on0A8C: write_memory 0xB7015C size 4 value 58500 virtual_protect 0 //-- Realtime   if framelimiter = off

 

 

but what's the adress for San Andreas v2.0?

[spaceeinstein]

You could take advantage of the days of the week SA has. How many weeks are in six months? Much better than counting how many milliseconds are in six months.