Time of Day based events

Allow map makers to utilize date and time for their maps.

Developper working on it: tchize

Implementation documentation: tod

• Stores open and close. → script uploaded that can close/open gates depending on time
• Monsters sleep at different times of day → see python/tod/sleep.py (add various moods?)
• Holidays
  • Stores can have sales
• NPCs that move to different locationsEither activate move floors depending on time, either use werewolf mecanism to make NPC 1 disappear and NPC2 appear.
• Alchemy formulae that will only yeild a result at a certain time (night, full moon, etc) → could filter on event_trigger be used on alchemy object?
• Dungeons only accessable at certain times → gates can close/open depending on time
• Monsters like Werewolfs→script build that can change monster depending on time of day
  • Can we (is it copyrighted?) have monsters turn to stone based on the time?
• Items being affected by the time of day → Demo weapons in test/tod that attack only at night / during day
• Perhaps connected values alter/default, so scorn gates are open during the day, closed at night. → predefined python filters can be used on event, object can bythemself trigger some connected value at specific time
• Add Gridarta UI to easily use prebuild python scripts → asked to gridarta team, they are thinking about script UI

Approximatively 90% work done on this. Still need to build a few script, like one to alter the destination of a map depending on hour and another to freeze/make alive all monster in map at a certain time. Note: some things below may only be working currently on developper's computer and may not yet have been commited

• Transfert of Month/weekday/season names to plugins.
• Add notions for periods of the day. (night, dawn, morning, noon, evening, dusk/sunset)
• provide a name→index hastable for periods of day/year

Example (verbose) python code using time based informations

import Crossfire
import string
 
Crossfire.Log(Crossfire.LogDebug, "Number of seasons for this server: %d" %Crossfire.Time.SEASONS_PER_YEAR)
for x in range(Crossfire.Time.SEASONS_PER_YEAR):
	Crossfire.Log(Crossfire.LogDebug, "Season %d is %s" %(x,Crossfire.GetSeasonName(x)))
Crossfire.Log(Crossfire.LogDebug, "Number of week days for this server: %d" %Crossfire.Time.DAYS_PER_WEEK)
for x in range(Crossfire.Time.DAYS_PER_WEEK):
	Crossfire.Log(Crossfire.LogDebug, "weekday %d is %s" %(x,Crossfire.GetWeekdayName(x)))
Crossfire.Log(Crossfire.LogDebug, "Number of months for this server: %d" %Crossfire.Time.MONTHS_PER_YEAR)
for x in range(Crossfire.Time.MONTHS_PER_YEAR):
	Crossfire.Log(Crossfire.LogDebug, "Month %d is %s" %(x,Crossfire.GetMonthName(x)))
 
 
 
now = Crossfire.GetTime()
parameters = string.split(Crossfire.ScriptParameters(),",")
current = [Crossfire.GetMonthName(now[1]),Crossfire.GetWeekdayName(now[5]),Crossfire.GetSeasonName(now[7])]
 
Crossfire.SetReturnValue(1)
if (set(parameters) & set(current)):
	Crossfire.SetReturnValue(0)

Prebuild scripts are available in /python/tod/sleep.py.