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FS2004 Night or day?..

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Can anyone tell me how to determine (for example with tokens or whatever they are called) is there a NIGHT or a DAY? I mean how to get "boolean" if the night textures are used (if it is dark outside or not)?

CLOCK_HOUR is not helping.
 
The SDK should be your best friend:

(E:TIME OF DAY,enum)

General time of day:

1 = Day

2 = Dusk/Dawn

3 = Night
 
n4gix said:
The SDK should be your best friend:
(E:TIME OF DAY,enum)
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Thanx, that's ALMOST what i needed. but...
it does show evening and night, but morning and day are both = 1 :(
And in june, for example evening begins toooo early... :(

and can you please tell me how to determine the first letter? I mean how did you know that TIME OF DAY is the "E" type? i didn't find it in SDK list. And I don't think it has something to do with "enum" type of data, because i used "number" type variables but they still were "A" types.......
 
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I'm afraid that's all that FS offers...

...years ago several others and I developed a hideously complex algorithim to determine "day/night" based on the sun angle, position of the aircraft, etc. As turned out, all of our efforts notwithstanding, the results weren't all that much better than the FS token variable... :rotfl:

As for the token variable prefixs, those are listed in the FSX SDK. Unfortunately they were not listed in the FS9 SDK...

...except for this handful listed below, everything else uses an A: prefix (Aircraft)...

Environment Data
This data is referenced by E: in XML gauges.

ABSOLUTE TIME
ZULU TIME
ZULU DAY OF WEEK
ZULU DAY OF MONTH
ZULU MONTH OF YEAR
ZULU DAY OF YEAR
ZULU YEAR GMT
LOCAL TIME
LOCAL DAY OF WEEK
LOCAL DAY OF MONTH
LOCAL MONTH OF YEAR
LOCAL DAY OF YEAR
LOCAL YEAR
TIME ZONE OFFSET
TIME OF DAY

Program Data
This data is referenced by P: in XML gauges.

SIMULATION RATE
UNITS OF MEASURE
 
n4gix, thanx for the prefix explanation. now i understand it.

About day or night. Maybe there is some tricky variable (or none-variable way) to determine if the night textures are on? it doesn't matter which one - aircraft's of scenery's....
 
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