Hard days night

Target Platforms Mobile
1

If you have any ideas please help as I am stumped…

I have a day / night cycle which works based on the Sun’s transform rotation.

The scene always starts at midday, the position the sun is set to in the editor.

However, with a level loader preceding it, the cycle can start anytime, depending on how long I let the preceding Level loader scene run! If I leave the start menu on screen for a few minutes then press start, I get a dark sky!

The sun moves with a simple rotate transform and should always start in the same position on level load (I am loading the complete level by Application.LoadLevel (1))

What could cause my day/cycle to start before the level has loaded!???

2

On inspection, the sun does keep the right transform. It is the sky changing color that is going out of sync.

3

Guessing here, but are you using Time.time to set the color change?

If so, try Time.timeSinceLevelLoad instead.

4

yes, I’m using
var t = Mathf.PingPong (Time.time, Skyduration) / Skyduration;

camera.backgroundColor = Color.Lerp (color1, color2, t);

Would that cause the problem? I assumed everything starts from scratch except global vars when a scene has loaded… thanks for the pointer, will check…

5

simply replacing Time.time in the code with Time.timeSinceLevelLoad seems to do the trick… thanks!

6

Sure! :smile: