Graalians

Graalians (https://www.graalians.com/forums/index.php)
-   Era Future Improvements (https://www.graalians.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=27)
-   -   Nightime Effect! (https://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11111)

cmx2us 10-17-2012 07:02 PM

The rain and cloud effects are awesome! But what if we had a nighttime effect?

Some pros and cons:

Pros:
• Streetlights can be turned on in the day, and turned off at night
• You can add new baddies, or NPCs. For example; raccoons, skunks, bats, etc.
• New neon signs on buildings, can be turned on and off
• Clocks can be GIF files ;)
• Headlights on cars can be useful
• You have a massive variety of new items to make! For example; flashlights (can be turned on and off, with a GUI icon similar to the car's headlight enable GUI), (working) night vision goggles, lanterns, etc.

Cons:
• May cause lag for some players
• Needs to be a mandatory effect for all players, otherwise new items, and NPCs/baddies would just be weird for other players
• Requires lots of work

Give me some feedback in the comments about what you think! Thanks! :)
Yours truly,
cmx2us

Vladamir Blackthorne 10-17-2012 07:27 PM

Sounds good... But for some reason it doesn't feel... Complete...

Kiko 10-17-2012 08:05 PM

Sounds fking awesome./+rep

BabyGhost 10-17-2012 08:13 PM

I always wanted that night time feeling in Graal Era. The only time it felt like that was last years Halloween.

Ghettoicedtea 10-17-2012 08:26 PM

I LIKE IT! A couple of things that i am thinking of though.

A. 20 minutes day and night
B. Make day and night for ALL players (that way not giving people who dont use the weather effect a very unfair advantage)
C. Ditch the weather system, make it be programmed in game for every player.

D. Make it sound less like minecraft where NPC's only come out at night. And make robbers who sit in trees and try to jump you day/night (much more at night though)


Also add in

Head lamps, a hat you buy for $500 that is like a flashlight but dosen't need to be eqquipped. Lights up a path that is infront of the player

lanterns, same idea but instead of a light in front its a smaller light all around the player

MAKE THE NIGHT VISION GOGGLES ACTUALY NIGHT VISION, makes the screen light green letting the user see everything on screen.

V. 10-17-2012 08:45 PM

Lighters. We need lighters.

Kiwi 10-17-2012 09:04 PM

Gif clocks wouldn't work, the file would have to be huge. I also don't agree with anything else but the concept. Doesn't Era have a day / night system? iEra can have an altered version of that.

cmx2us 10-17-2012 09:17 PM

Quote:

Posted by Lazerlatté (Post 215476)
Sounds good... But for some reason it doesn't feel... Complete...

I agree, they are going to add more features to this effect than the ones I've listed, if the update ever comes in the future.

Quote:

Posted by V. (Post 215532)
Lighters. We need lighters.

Yeah, was thinking about that. :) Easy graphics too, I'm already in the process of making one. I'm also going to attempt the Ganis.

Quote:

Posted by Kiwi (Post 215542)
Gif clocks wouldn't work, the file would have to be huge. I also don't agree with anything else but the concept. Doesn't Era have a day / night system? iEra can have an altered version of that.

Not an actual time recorder, just one needle moving around 360 degrees.

Kiwi 10-17-2012 10:37 PM

Quote:

Posted by cmx2us (Post 215551)
Not an actual time recorder, just one needle moving around 360 degrees.

Well, you don't need day / night for that, you can have it now. But it still seems like an annoying little detail that isn't needed. There are nice little details, like the ones you see / saw on Atlantis, but this is not one of them.

V. 10-17-2012 10:57 PM

There's already the silver zippo from the sparkler gani, so it would be even easier to implement, in terms of not having to draw one out.

Shock 10-18-2012 12:45 AM

There used to be a nighttime effect in the weather... But it wasn't strongly executed and I think it was removed. Not sure.

MSM 10-18-2012 01:05 AM

I like the idea, but then the server should probably have a Server Time and there could be a big clock tower in Start Park

iHot 10-18-2012 01:08 AM

Quote:

Posted by cmx2us (Post 215470)
Streetlights can be turned on in the day, and turned off at night

That sounds stupid.

Vladamir Blackthorne 10-18-2012 01:15 AM

Quote:

Posted by iHot (Post 215708)
That sounds stupid.

Yeah, street lamps are meant for broad daylight >:U

Ignatius 10-18-2012 01:27 AM

derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

iSilver 10-18-2012 02:12 AM

•
•
•
•
•

Quote:

Posted by iHot (Post 215708)
That sounds stupid.

how? thats perfectly logical

Martyn 10-18-2012 03:24 AM

Quote:

Posted by MSM (Post 215707)
I like the idea, but then the server should probably have a Server Time and there could be a big clock tower in Start Park

Agree

Sup3rn00b 10-18-2012 04:16 AM

Quote:

Posted by iSilver (Post 215733)

how? thats perfectly logical

turned ON suring the day, and OFF during the night. look closely :0

Shock 10-18-2012 07:24 AM

Quote:

Posted by iHot (Post 215708)
That sounds stupid.

XD anyway it was probably just a mistake.

poorface 10-18-2012 12:44 PM

Quote:

Posted by Sup3rn00b (Post 215788)
turned ON suring the day, and OFF during the night. look closely :0

The only problem is different time zones.

Martyn 10-18-2012 12:57 PM

Quote:

Posted by poorface (Post 215945)
The only problem is different time zones.

Add a server time

V. 10-18-2012 02:55 PM

Clientside the darkness then. So it matches the time on your device. (You could change the time, changing the darkness setting but not if the time is via internet.)

0PiX0 10-18-2012 04:53 PM

There have been plans for a lot of this already. In fact, a day-night system has already been on the server; just disabled. Will probably be making clocks and such (furniture) as well for a servertime.

ManBearPig 10-18-2012 08:43 PM

Really, who wants to play with a darkened screen? is unhealthy for your eyes you know.

And Why make it mandatory not all ppl likes night effect,it will be rather useless for pkers.

Zdog 10-18-2012 09:09 PM

They added this with the new clocks:
Minute hand-moves one click every 10 real seconds
Hour hand-move one click every 10 real minutes

cmx2us 10-18-2012 09:31 PM

Wow, snk added my idea fast!

Quote:

Posted by ManBearPig (Post 216051)
Really, who wants to play with a darkened screen? is unhealthy for your eyes you know.

And Why make it mandatory not all ppl likes night effect,it will be rather useless for pkers.

Apparently lots of people, the update was just made today.

MSM 10-18-2012 10:13 PM

Lol, you think it was "your" idea? Pix already said they had ideas for this.

cmx2us 10-18-2012 11:26 PM

Quote:

Posted by MSM (Post 216117)
Lol, you think it was "your" idea? Pix already said they had ideas for this.

When.....?

Shock 10-18-2012 11:34 PM

And I also posted about this before. It's a good old idea you just happened to suggest.

fsh 10-19-2012 01:59 AM

Quote:

Posted by cmx2us (Post 216151)
When.....?

I'm am very sure it wasn't your idea, either way who gives a damn?

poorface 10-19-2012 03:49 AM

Quote:

Posted by 0PiX0 (Post 215988)
There have been plans for a lot of this already. In fact, a day-night system has already been on the server; just disabled. Will probably be making clocks and such (furniture) as well for a servertime.

This is where he said it was already made.

iHot 10-19-2012 04:11 AM

I'm glad cmx2us was able to bring a once dead idea and make it a reality.

Shock 10-19-2012 01:18 PM

Quote:

Posted by iHot (Post 216329)
I'm glad cmx2us was able to bring a once dead idea and make it a reality.

...it was already made. They're just not using it.

G Fatal 10-19-2012 02:19 PM

Sure Classic had a similar idea, ohwell.Era miles ahead in production as per.

J0ker 10-21-2012 11:15 AM

Quote:

Posted by MSM (Post 215707)
I like the idea, but then the server should probably have a Server Time and there could be a big clock tower in Start Park

theres already a place with a clock tower it just isnt opened yet

Gamelova 10-21-2012 02:26 PM

Your siggy is ridiculous dude. Shorten it.

Shock 10-21-2012 03:05 PM

Pick one picture for your sig. Not 4 massive ones.

BabyGhost 10-22-2012 03:54 AM

Use spoilers like what I did. My sig is kinda long if there was no spoilers.

Ghettoicedtea 10-24-2012 08:04 PM

Quote:

Posted by poorface (Post 215945)
The only problem is different time zones.

SCREW TIME ZONES, MAKE ERA TIME DIFFERENT


All times are GMT. The time now is 08:26 AM.

Powered by vBulletin/Copyright ©2000 - 2026, vBulletin Solutions Inc.