game.surfaces[1].always_day from bool to real number

[darkfrei]

Hi!

Is it possible to change existing

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/c game.surfaces[1].always_day=true

to something like

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/c game.surfaces[1].sun_bright=1

where the value is from 0 (not overwritten) to 1 (complete overwritten, the same like always_day=true).

[darkfrei]

Now we have only two positions: .always_day=true and .always_day=false, but nothing between.

[Klonan]

You're probably more looking for this:

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaS ... ce.daytime

[darkfrei]

You're probably more looking for this:

http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaS ... ce.daytime

Nice work! But not exactly. See this idea: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=51196
With .daytime you can set day time, but all nights are same dark. And there is no way to set nights a little bit brighter.

[Mooncat]

So you are talking about brightness, which should be a new property rather than changing the ones that are related to daytime.

Moweather introduces cloudy day that makes the surface to be darker. It is done by changing daytime. For now, you can use the same trick too as this is the only thing that affects brightness.

But IMO, for long term, a new variable should be implemented. Changing daytime for brightness is simply wrong.

[steinio]

So you are talking about brightness, which should be a new property rather than changing the ones that are related to daytime.

Moweather introduces cloudy day that makes the surface to be darker. It is done by changing daytime. For now, you can use the same trick too as this is the only thing that affects brightness.

But IMO, for long term, a new variable should be implemented. Changing daytime for brightness is simply wrong.

There is already surface.darkness but it's read only.

[Mooncat]

So you are talking about brightness, which should be a new property rather than changing the ones that are related to daytime.

Moweather introduces cloudy day that makes the surface to be darker. It is done by changing daytime. For now, you can use the same trick too as this is the only thing that affects brightness.

But IMO, for long term, a new variable should be implemented. Changing daytime for brightness is simply wrong.

There is already surface.darkness but it's read only.

Good to know!
hm... but according to its description, it sounds like it is just a function converting daytime to darkness, something like

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return surface.daytime * DaytimeToDarknessConstant;

[steinio]

So you are talking about brightness, which should be a new property rather than changing the ones that are related to daytime.

Moweather introduces cloudy day that makes the surface to be darker. It is done by changing daytime. For now, you can use the same trick too as this is the only thing that affects brightness.

But IMO, for long term, a new variable should be implemented. Changing daytime for brightness is simply wrong.

There is already surface.darkness but it's read only.

Good to know!
hm... but according to its description, it sounds like it is just a function converting daytime to darkness, something like

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return surface.daytime * DaytimeToDarknessConstant;

Yes could be. Daytime and darkness are strongly bound together.

[darkfrei]

hm... but according to its description, it sounds like it is just a function converting daytime to darkness, something like

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return surface.daytime * DaytimeToDarknessConstant;

And complete code is just

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if not (surface.alwaysday) then return surface.daytime * DaytimeToDarknessConstant else return 1 end

[Mooncat]

hm... but according to its description, it sounds like it is just a function converting daytime to darkness, something like

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return surface.daytime * DaytimeToDarknessConstant;

And complete code is just

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if not (surface.alwaysday) then return surface.daytime * DaytimeToDarknessConstant else return 1 end

In fact, setting surface.always_day = true is the same as

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surface.freeze_daytime = true
surface.daytime = 0

And surface.always_day = false is

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surface.freeze_daytime = false

That's why I removed the option for changing always_day in Creative Mode. I wouldn't be surprised if the devs decide to remove it entirely in 0.16.