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Posted: **Tue Jul 25, 2017 7:42 pm**

Hi!

Is it possible to change existing

/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).

Posted: **Tue Jul 25, 2017 7:44 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:09 pm**

You're probably more looking for this:

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

Posted: **Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:15 pm**

Klonan wrote: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.

Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2017 2:16 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:03 am**

Mooncat wrote: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.

Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2017 6:19 am**

steinio wrote:
Mooncat wrote: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;

Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2017 3:24 pm**

Mooncat wrote:
steinio wrote:
Mooncat wrote: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.

Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:30 pm**

Mooncat wrote: 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

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2017 9:42 am**

darkfrei wrote:
Mooncat wrote: 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.

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