SSE Game time and Shade of the Revenant

[Nightman0]

Hey guys, I am trying to implement the shade of the revenant to allow the creation of black soul gems every 8 days as in Oblivion. I can't figure out how to get this to work. I want to make it so that every 8 days an activator will be able to be activated and if you have grand soul gems it will turn them into black.

 

I want to change a global variable precisely at 12 a.m. every 8 days to allow for the functionality but I can't find an event that would work for specifically at 12 a.m. on a certain day. Once I get that, I could just registerforupdategametime(192) to check for 8 days later but how do I get the first instance at the right time and is there a better way to do this? If you have any insight, please let me know. Thank you!

[dylbill]

Hey, I think that's a fine way to do it. You can use the GameHour global variable to get the current time. 0.0 is 12 am. Also I would use a bool instead of a global variable, that's just me though. For example:

 

Bool Property CanUse Auto Hidden 
GlobalVariable Property GameHour Auto 
SoulGem Property SoulGemGrand Auto
SoulGem Property SoulGemBlack Auto

Event OnInit() 
    RegisterForSingleUpdateGameTime((24.0 - GameHour.GetValue())) ;updates at 12am 
EndEvent 

Event OnUpdateGameTime() 
    RegisterForSingleUpdateGameTime(192.0)
    CanUse = True
EndEvent 

Event OnActivate(ObjectReference akActionRef) 
    If CanUse
        If akActionRef == Game.GetPlayer()
            If Game.getPlayer().GetItemCount(SoulGemGrand) > 0 
                CanUse = false
                Game.getPlayer().RemoveItem(SoulGemGrand, 1)
                Game.getPlayer().AddItem(SoulGemBlack, 1)
            Endif 
        Endif 
    Endif 
EndEvent

[Nightman0]

I knew the answer would be simple. Been thinking about this all day today and you show all you have to do is subtract the gamehour variable to get midnight. Thank you for this. Incredibly helpful.

[dylbill]

No problem, happy modding!

[Nightman0]

Okay, another issue I've run into.

 

I am trying to make a giant beam of light appear during the day of the revenant.

 

To that end, I have placed a moveablestatic in the world at the altar's location. I have a quest trying to fill an alias with a alias fill type of Location Alias reference, much the way the Civil war adds objects.

 

The problem is when the quest starts it is not filling the alias. I have a Location Alias before the Reference Alias Pointed to the Location that the altar is in. The beam has the location ref type set but I can't get the alias to fill.

 

Maybe there is an easier way to make something appear during the correct times but I can't think of one other than attaching a script directly to the objectreference but I'm wondering if this has any drawbacks. I kind of just tried to copy what the civil war did but I can't seem to make it work. Thank you for any help!