Question regarding to *isnight()

[Bin4ry]

Like title, I'd like to create a shop NPC who only appears at night. My server day/night duration is 7200000/1200000.

Is there any alternative way instead to use a timer loop every mins to check isnight and enable the NPC?

[Euphy]

You can control day/night cycles using a script instead of through conf.

OnClockXXXX:
   day;
   disablenpc "Your NPC";
   end;
OnClockXXXX:
   night;
   enablenpc "Your NPC";
   end;

[Aerie]

Maybe something like this :

OnInit:
if (isday()==1) {
disablenpc "XXX";}
if (isnight()==1) {
enablenpc "XXX";}
sleep2 60000;
donpcevent "XXX::OnInit";
end;

[clydelion]

or call a label from within the source..

Index: pc.c
===================================================================
--- pc.c (revision 16138)
+++ pc.c (working copy)
@@ -8399,6 +8399,7 @@
 night_flag = 0; // 0=day, 1=night [Yor]
 map_foreachpc(pc_daynight_timer_sub);
 strcpy(tmp_soutput, (data == 0) ? msg_txt(502) : msg_txt(60)); // The day has arrived!
+ npc_event_doall("OnDay");
 intif_broadcast(tmp_soutput, strlen(tmp_soutput) + 1, 0);
 return 0;
}
@@ -8420,6 +8421,7 @@
 night_flag = 1; // 0=day, 1=night [Yor]
 map_foreachpc(pc_daynight_timer_sub);
 strcpy(tmp_soutput, (data == 0) ? msg_txt(503) : msg_txt(59)); // The night has fallen...
+ npc_event_doall("OnNight");
 intif_broadcast(tmp_soutput, strlen(tmp_soutput) + 1, 0);
 return 0;
}

then based on Euphy's script, you can use..

OnDay:
disablenpc "Your NPC";
end;

OnNight:
enablenpc "Your NPC";
end;

[Bin4ry]

Thank you everyone. @cyldelion, why is that wasn't implemented into svn yet. convenient indeed!

Edit: Do I need an OnInit to trigger the NPC first? Not sure if OnDay will trigger when server start..

Edit 2: Confirmed working without OnInit, thank you again.

Edited September 4, 2012 by darristan