Play doodad's animation when its night time

[jonbon29]

Hello guys I just want to ask if its possible to play a doodad's animation when its night time and will change its animation in daytime.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Yes.

Use this function:

• Animation - Play the <Animation i.e. "stand"> animation for all doodads of type <Doodad Type> within (Playable map area)

In response to this event:

• Game - The in-game time of day becomes Equal to 18.00

Or use 6.00 for day-time.

If your doodads are only within a specific area, I highly recommend making a specific region around them using the region editor. It isn't the best idea to run the animation function over the entire map area. If the map is huge, I imagine the engine could take a long time enumerating all of them. But hey, you don't know until you try it. You can try it as it is, and if it doesn't cause a short freeze or anything, then feel free to leave it as it is!

 

[jonbon29]

Tnx dude, so that's how to play doodad's animation..

 

[Zwiebelchen]

If your doodads are only within a specific area, I highly recommend making a specific region around them using the region editor. It isn't the best idea to run the animation function over the entire map area. If the map is huge, I imagine the engine could take a long time enumerating all of them. But hey, you don't know until you try it. You can try it as it is, and if it doesn't cause a short freeze or anything, then feel free to leave it as it is!

I actually played around with the PlayAnimationForDoodadsInRect function a lot for my external highres texture pack and noticed it's pretty damn well optimized. It's not like enumerating destructables or units at all!

I ended up using a single function with almost 200 consecutive PlayAnimation functions (as you don't have much choice... it's not a regular enumeration that allows a custom callback so I couldn't implement a lookup table) in a 50k doodad map and it only creates a barely noticable hickup.