Stop in-game time from advancing while in a quest?

[DiodeLadder]

Hi guys,

 

I'm working on a quest involving a sort of fantasy location, and I'm wondering if there's a way to stop in-game time from advancing while the player is in this quest location. I know there's a console command for manipulating timescale, but I couldn't find anything for papyrus script. I guess I would need to 1) find out the current timescale (not everybody plays default, so I would need the value to return it to), 2) and set it to zero only while the player is in this quest location.

 

Another question is - would it be safe to do this, provided it's doable, in terms of being compatible with whatever other ongoing quests and scripts? Would there be some problems I should be aware of?

 

If stopping in-game time isn't possible, I still want to be able to suspend settlement attacks, and hunger/thirst effects in HC mode. While testing the location in-game, I thought those things popping up made no sense because of the context. Would there be a way to achieve that?

 

Thanks. :smile:

[SKKmods]

Thats no problem:

GlobalVariable Property pTimescale Auto Const mandatory
Float fOriginalTimescale

Function StopTime() 
fOriginalTimescale = pTimescale.GetValue() 
pTimescale.SetValue(0) 
EndFunction

Function StartTime() 
If fOriginalTimescale > 0 
  pTimescale.SetValue(fOriginalTimescale) 
Endif
EndFunction

But, setting game time to zero can cause issues with physics and some other platform ticks and tocks. I have run with 1 for limited testing and 6 for highly invested games.

[DiodeLadder]

Ah, thank you very very much for your help with this, SKK!! I was hoping that you'd be around. :-)

 

Silly me, I didn't realize TimeScale is a global. I'll try with minimizing the timescale instead of zero as you say. Whew, this is another question mark resolved for this quest. :laugh: