How to dynamically update a custom character's stats at the beginning of each day?

[yibiyul]

Hello everyone, this is my first time making a mod, or programming in general. I'm trying to make a farming-oriented character that gets stat buffs at the start of each day, which is dependent on the amount of farm plants in the world. My progress so far has been using the code from the c_countprefabs() command to make a function that returns only the count of the specified prefab. I then use a local variable to hold the total number of farm plants using every farm plant prefab ("farm_plant_tomato," "farm_plant_eggplant," etc.) using that function. The next plan was to update the count when a day begins, add that count to the character's stats, and play a quote for the character.

The main problem I'm running into is that I have no idea how to trigger the function when the day starts. I've tried searching for some keywords or mechanics related to time in my copy of the game's script files, but I've turned up nothing. I've tried insight, skill trees, music, darkness, Charlie, and other mechanics that I can think of related to time passing, but I haven't found anything yet. Any clues as to the specific script or script name I can look at would be greatly appreciated.

[Haruhi Kawaii]

On 8/6/2024 at 1:22 PM, yibiyul said:

Hello everyone, this is my first time making a mod, or programming in general. I'm trying to make a farming-oriented character that gets stat buffs at the start of each day, which is dependent on the amount of farm plants in the world. My progress so far has been using the code from the c_countprefabs() command to make a function that returns only the count of the specified prefab. I then use a local variable to hold the total number of farm plants using every farm plant prefab ("farm_plant_tomato," "farm_plant_eggplant," etc.) using that function. The next plan was to update the count when a day begins, add that count to the character's stats, and play a quote for the character.

The main problem I'm running into is that I have no idea how to trigger the function when the day starts. I've tried searching for some keywords or mechanics related to time in my copy of the game's script files, but I've turned up nothing. I've tried insight, skill trees, music, darkness, Charlie, and other mechanics that I can think of related to time passing, but I haven't found anything yet. Any clues as to the specific script or script name I can look at would be greatly appreciated.

Try

	inst:WatchWorldState("cycles", Needupdatestats)