Once per day...

ID:159954
 
Dec 13 2008, 12:40 pm
When a player logs into my game i want a random image to be displayed to them (one of 6). Which is simple enough, ill just use pick() - but ideally i dont want it to change the image thats displayed for 24 hours. I want them to see the same one, for a day.

Does anyone know of a no-fuss way of doing this? The only things i can think of seem overly complicated.

Thanks
Dec 13 2008, 1:00 pm
Turn world.realtime into years, days, minutes, seconds, and 1/10 seconds. Then check if the day is the same as the day the image was displayed to them.
Dec 13 2008, 1:05 pm
I belive you could do that over-riding the world/New() calling a proc that loops everyday, and use for() loop to get the login screen's path and editting it's icon.


Ex:
turf
    login_screen
        density=1
world
    New()
        ..()
        change_login_screen()
    proc
        change_login_screen()
            for(var/turf/login_screen/D in world)
                //loops in the world to find a turf
                //with the path /turf/login_screen
                //and defind it as D
                if(login_screen>=6)
                    login_screen=0
                login_screen+=1
                if(login_screen==1)
                    D.icon='login_screen1.png'
                if(login_screen==2)
                    D.icon='login_screen2.png'
                if(login_screen==3)
                    D.icon='login_screen3.png'
                if(login_screen==4)
                    D.icon='login_screen4.png'
                if(login_screen==5)
                    D.icon='login_screen5.png'
                if(login_screen==6)
                    D.icon='login_screen6.png'
            spawn(14400)change_login_screen()
var/login_screen=0
Dec 13 2008, 1:12 pm
In response to Danny Kenobi
 
turf
    login_screen
        density=1
world
    New()
        ..()
        change_login_screen()
    proc
        change_login_screen()
            for(var/turf/login_screen/D in world)
                //loops in the world to find a turf
                //with the path /turf/login_screen
                //and defind it as D
                if(login_screen>=6)
                    login_screen=0
                login_screen++
                D.icon = file("login_screen[login_screen]")
            spawn(14400)change_login_screen()
var/login_screen=0


Fix'd, my idea would still be better though. This can still cause someone to have more than one login screen a day if the world isn't rebooted at 12:00 AM.
Dec 13 2008, 1:19 pm
In response to Jeff8500
 
turf
    login_screen
        density=1
world
    New()
        ..()
        change_login_screen()
    proc
        change_login_screen()
            for(var/turf/login_screen/D in world)
                //loops in the world to find a turf
                //with the path /turf/login_screen
                //and defind it as D
                if(login_screen>=6)
                    login_screen=0
                login_screen++
                D.icon = file("login_screen[login_screen]")
            spawn(864000)change_login_screen()
var/login_screen=0


I belive, i fixed the error you were talking about. By the way, nice idea i didn't know i could use '[]' inside
file() to manage the icon like that.
Dec 13 2008, 1:23 pm
In response to Danny Kenobi
No, you didn't. If the world is rebooted, the login screen will be changed. Then it will be changed in 24 hours. Sometimes the world may be rebooted midday. This will result not only in two login screens on the day it's rebooted, but two on every day after that because the proc will be called again in 24 hours. The only way to do this without that problem is to do what I said :P