Rapid day cycle/moving sun

[Abbiabigail]

Hello!

Currently working on a project and wondered if any of you would know if it's possible to create a quite fast day cycle with EEP? Anything that would look like the example below:

Thank you! :))

[Quistess Alpha]

possible, but for something that rapid, it would be easier to just send environment updates via script.

[Abbiabigail]

Amazing thank you! Any idea where I can find a guide that would help me do that? I've never worked with scripts that alter environment settings before, but I'm willing to learn!  

[Quistess Alpha]

44 minutes ago, Abbiabigail said:

Amazing thank you! Any idea where I can find a guide that would help me do that? I've never worked with scripts that alter environment settings before, but I'm willing to learn!  

If you have a set of sky settings, you can add a script like this and your settings (named in alphabetical order you want them to play) to an object on the parcel. The script needs to be compiled to an experience and the experience needs to be enabled on the land where it's running.

float gFrequency = 5.0; // seconds between environment changes
integer gIndexSky;
string gEnv;
default
{
    state_entry()
    {   llSetTimerEvent(gFrequency);
    }
    timer()
    {   gIndexSky=(gIndexSky+1)%llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_SETTING);
        gEnv = llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_SETTING,gIndexSky);
        list agents = llGetAgentList(AGENT_LIST_PARCEL,[]);
        integer i = llGetListLength(agents);
        while(~--i)
        {   llRequestExperiencePermissions(llList2Key(agents,i),"");
        }
    }
    experience_permissions(key ID)
    {   llReplaceAgentEnvironment(ID,gFrequency,gEnv);
        //llOwnerSay("Debug: set env for "+(string)ID);
    }
}

Getting the sun/moon positions to line up in a pleasing way is actually quite tricky though. I didn't manage anything presentable while fooling around.

[Abbiabigail]

Oh, thank you so much for your help! Definitely a good start, I will keep looking into it! :))

[animats]

Yes, you can, but please don't do it on mainland. It's really annoying when someone flies over the parcel and the sky goes crazy. If you really want that on a small scale, animate a sim surround in a skybox. That will keep the effect local.

There's a speed limit on environment changes. It's probably faster than it should be. A reasonable limit would be a full day/night change in 30 seconds to 2 minutes, so when you entered a parcel out of sync with its neighbors, the effect was like a sunset, not like turning off the lights. If you TP in, of course, it's instant.

[Quistess Alpha]

1 hour ago, animats said:

It's really annoying when someone flies over the parcel and the sky goes crazy.

with scripted changes, you can target agents who are within some boundary and who have accepted an experience. That seems sane enough to me?