Always "night" tile? (for caves)

[Rya]

I want to know how I can make certain parts of a map being indepedent of daytime. It's usually used for caves. Can I do this somehow with the map editor or do I need WML? Is there a guide for it? If you have large caves it would be pretty annoying to set every single maptile in WML, I'd assume.

Also does this + illuminate cause "neutral" or "day"?

[Ceres]

You need to do it in WML, use the [time_area] tag. You also don't need to set each tile individually, because the Standard Location Filter supports ranges like x=1-45.

Also does this + illuminate cause "neutral" or "day"?

Since "Underground" is basically the same as night, with illumination you'd get neutral.

[Rya]

Hmm, I was thinking: Couldn't I just say that all cave-like tiles count as underground?

That would be something like...

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[time_area]
terrain=Cave
{UNDERGROUND}
[/time_area]

[Ceres]

Yes, that would be possible too. However, it only works if [time_area] is in an [event] (e.g. prestart).
The location filter should be terrain=U*, because all cave terrain codes start with U.

[JaMiT]

Also does this + illuminate cause "neutral" or "day"?

The standard "illuminates" ability increases the lawful bonus by 25, up to a maximum of +25. So if you set your cave to use the "underground" schedule, the resulting lawful bonus would be -25 (underground) + 25 (illuminates) = 0. If you instead use "deep underground", the result would be -30 (deep underground) + 25 (illuminates) = -5, for a small penalty to lawful (and liminal) units and a small bonus to chaotic units.

(If you define custom terrain, it is also possible to define an illumination level for that terrain, but that is more work than just defining a [time_area] for what you want.)

[Rya]

Deep underground? =o
Are there more types like this? For example something that is always 0 (neutral)?

[8680]

Are there more types like this? For example something that is always 0 (neutral)?

Dawn? Dusk? Indoors?

[Rya]

Can I find a list of all of them somewhere?

[8680]

http://svn.Gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/w ... edules.cfg

[Rya]

Thanks!