Day Night Cycle Tutorial

12 years ago

Hello,

I have decided to do what is basically a tutorial for a day and night cycle and because i know a lot of people use different languages i am going to show you how to do in terms of values the two values will be opacity (doesn’t have to be opacity, its just what i did for my game to show day and night i had a black sprite that i changed the opacity of so it apeared to get dark then light again) and i had another value which is used to change opacity

okay so i start out wanting to change the opacity from 0 (being mid-day and brightest it can be) up to 90 (being the darkest still slightly visible but very dark) and back to 0 this is the way i do it

first i wanted to do it in the easiets way possible and ebcause i do A-level maths i knew the best way would be to use a curve equation i could have used either a normal curve or i could have used a sine wave isf i wanted to but i just used a standard - x^2 equation ok this is the equation i used

y = -(x^2) + 90 (google it to see the graph of the wave)

this is the best way in my eyes to do it because you can just use the y value for the opacity

so this is what i did

i am doing it in english in case you use some weird language that i dont know

just a reminder i have two values opacity and value1

so i start off making value1 =-9.487

this because on the wave it crosee the x axis at this point so this is the time that will be brightest

now you have to decide youre time scale i am going to do mine in a minute (so one day will be a minute)

9.487*2 this gives the distance from each point it croses the axis

18.974/ timescale

18.974/60 (60 seconds in a minute)

0.31623333