Point lights that come on at night

In reference to this thread here : https://www.beamng.com/threads/point-lights-only-light-up-at-night.23942/

I used this in my maps years ago, but it no longer seems to work. Is there a new method for doing this these days? I would imagine its LUA based now, but I'm not a coder. I would love to get my street lights working again.
Any help would be amazing

 

Like for the map Utah: in the main file of your map, create a mainLevel.lua

Inside put something like this

Code:

local M = {}

local function setAllLightsEnabled(group, value)
    for i = 0, group.obj:getCount(), 1 do
        local id = group.obj:idAt(i)
        local obj = scenetree.findObjectById(id)
        if obj and obj.obj:isSubClassOf('LightBase') then
            obj.obj:setLightEnabled( value )
        end
    end
end

local lastValue = nil

local function onUpdate()
    local tod = scenetree.tod
    if not tod then return end

    local value = false
    if tod.time > 0.21 and tod.time < 0.77 then
        value = true
    end

    if lastValue == value then return end
    lastValue = value
end

M.onUpdate = onUpdate

return M

 

That's some awesome info, I will have a fiddle about. I was unaware Utah had lights that came on at night. I can at least see how its done now hopefully.
I will probably be back in a few hours with a bunch of questions though. haha.
Thank you so much!

 

Sure, let me know if it's work

 

Ok here comes the questions lol.
So I tried putting your code into the mainLevel.lua and no lights came on at night. So I looked at the lua in Utah and it was a little different.
It looks like its pointing to the folder in the scene tree where the lights are.
My lights are in a folder called dynamiclights and in the Utah map they are in one called auto_repair_lights.

So I changed auto_repair_lights to dynamiclights in the levelMain.lua and it still didn't work.

Here is the code from Utah

Code:

local M = {}

local function setAllLightsEnabled(group, value)
    for i = 0, group.obj:getCount(), 1 do
        local id = group.obj:idAt(i)
        local obj = scenetree.findObjectById(id)
        if obj and obj.obj:isSubClassOf('LightBase') then
            obj.obj:setLightEnabled( value )
        end
    end
end

local lastValue = nil

local function onUpdate()
    local tod = scenetree.tod
    if not tod then return end

    local value = false
    if tod.time > 0.21 and tod.time < 0.77 then
        value = true
    end

    if lastValue == value then return end
    lastValue = value

    if scenetree.auto_repair_lights then
      setAllLightsEnabled(scenetree.auto_repair_lights, value )
      setAllLightsEnabled(scenetree.tourist_center_lights, value )
    end
end

M.onUpdate = onUpdate

return

and here is what I tried changing it to

Code:

local M = {}

local function setAllLightsEnabled(group, value)
    for i = 0, group.obj:getCount(), 1 do
        local id = group.obj:idAt(i)
        local obj = scenetree.findObjectById(id)
        if obj and obj.obj:isSubClassOf('LightBase') then
            obj.obj:setLightEnabled( value )
        end
    end
end

local lastValue = nil

local function onUpdate()
    local tod = scenetree.tod
    if not tod then return end

    local value = false
    if tod.time > 0.21 and tod.time < 0.77 then
        value = true
    end

    if lastValue == value then return end
    lastValue = value

    if scenetree.dynamiclights then
      setAllLightsEnabled(scenetree.dynamiclights, value )
    end
end

M.onUpdate = onUpdate

return

I am obviously missing something here, any ideas?
--- Post updated ---
Ignore me I noticed I was missing the M at the very end. I'm such a noob.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I'm so pleased to have it working again

 

You re welcome