How does nigtmareclock run when you are not in the ruins?

[voltorben]

Hi,

I started looking into DS modding last night (not new to coding, so dont be afraid of getting techical).

I'm playing around with the nightmare cycle (nightmareclock.lua) and while in the Ruins (in-game) i can use GetNightmareClock() and and listen for the 'nightmareclocktick' event. It all works fine.

However when i try to call GetNightmareClock() in the caves (or the overworld, for that matter) i get an error.
Also the 'nightmareclocktick' event isn't fired except when im in the ruins.

First i thought, "yeah, okay, the clock simply only runs in the ruins". But after some testing i can conclude that is does in fact run while im in the caves - pretty precisely - like the day night cycle in the overworld does while your are spelunking.

So my question is, how does the nightmare clock keep track of itself (keep running) while i'm not able to call it or listen for the events? How can i listen/use it when i'm not in the ruins?

Thanks for reading

[Seiai]

@voltorben,

the ruin are actually just something like "cave 2".

GetWorld():IsCave() and self.inst.topology.level_number == 2

caves also have the nightmarerifts, that use the nightmareclock.

so u could probably look how nightmarerifts in the caves use the nightmareclock.

[voltorben]

That is a really good idea to check the nightmarerifts! Thanks

No need yet to distinguish between cave and ruins right now, since the events wont even fire other places than the ruins
But that little piece of code will sure come handy if i figure out the other stuff. So thanks for that too!

(unfortunately can't look before i'm off work. But i will edit this post with any findings, in case people search it in the future)

Edited July 1, 2015 by voltorben

[rene111]

@voltorben @Seiai

 

I had this question too!!!

Did you find the answer? Unfortunately nightmare fissures in cave1 are not hooked to the nightmare clock T__T

 

I wanted to add a little bit of speech to the characters to indicate nightmare clock status when the characters are in cave1, but adding to nightmare clock.lua does not work..............

 

Thank you!!!