Keeping Track Of The Time And Days | Day Night Cycle Part 2 - Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial

[@ULTRARADICALTOYWORKS]

I can't thank you enough. Every tutorial you make is not only helpful to the task at hand but helps give overall context and understanding of UE4 as a whole. You rock, appreciate ya!

[@MattAspland]

Thank you for the kind words mate, really happy I could help out!

[@brokenkeyboardapps6271]

These are the best tutorials I have seen in a long time. Greatly appreciated!

[@fleurbird]

This is cool, looking forward to the saving sys

[@MattAspland]

Thanks Fleur!

[@benjaminreynolds3659]

@@MattAspland Did I miss the save day and time video as I don't see it anywhere on the channel. Thanks for all your content, most impressive and helpful!

[@Anonymous-mf8ip]

Thanks Matt, I don't know what I would do without you:)

[@axilyk]

Very useful tutorial for my Indie Game!

[@MattAspland]

That's great to hear bro! :)

[@RB-GameDesign]

Fantastic tutorial Matt, just what I needed at the perfect time. Really glad I found you, shall be keeping a close eye for more tutorials :)

[@g-dojjo]

Thanks brooo!!really good tutorial!! :D

[@MattAspland]

It's always a pleasure to help bro :)

[@haddi8582]

AWESOME I wanted this for sooo long!

[@abegames4880]

Yeah I was to ask you to do this video ;)

[@MattAspland]

Always a pleasure bro :)

[@AMMediaGames]

Here's what you type in the box you will know when - Day: {Day} | {Hours} : {Minutes}

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Very nice Matt 👍

[@MattAspland]

Thanks a lot dude! :)

[@TheBassMountain]

Excellent tutorial series! Thanks so much

[@fifthfangofmetsudo]

I know this is an older video, but would you mind explaining how you arrived at the specific number of 240? I'm struggling to make the connection.

[@studiobaxter1242]

That worked, thanks.

[@ManImTheVoid]

Does this work for Unreal Engine 5 as well? I know some things are outdated

[@Faizy_Writes]

😌

[@jiachengjiang2624]

Hello there, thank you so much for the series of day and night cycles and time tracking, they help me a lot. But I get some questions here, So I put my time speed as 1 or 2, or 3, the time is going on but the sun does not rise correctly. but when I put a larger number on the "speed" it doing correctly.

[@MonkeyDGhoul]

do you know how to correct it?

[@Najtin]

love your videos

[@MountainDanGaming]

Hi Matt, been following this tutourial and many others of yours, but i have an issue with this one, where did you get the Update Sun Direction function? i cant seem to add it

[@trypresident]

time stamp at 11:41 in the video i seen that rite after it goes in to day 1 y dont the time start at 1 instead of 0 to 1 so if u think about it its missin a hour can you explain

[@eg8568]

Excellent work. Thank you very much. This was very helpful :)

[@vixuel]

I'm having an issue, when I press play It'll show 2 layers of text on top of each other. One showing the time working and another one just on 00 : 00. At 6:45 in the video, adding to the viewport shows the working time counter but I cannot find where the 00 : 00 comes from. Ill try making in in a new Widget (rather than my main HUD).

[@vixuel]

UPDATE: Due to the HUD being opened on the ThirdPersonCharacter, that's what caused the overlap, so making a new widget for time and putting it where id like works quite well.

[@TamberCave]

Hey Matt, how would I go about only displaying/updating the minutes in 5 or 10 minute intervals instead of every single minute being displayed? Thanks!

[@madclowninc.4233]

I got everything else working and the clock is counting up but its writing over the text so it goes from 12:00 and the 1 overlaps the 0 etc as it counts up, making a mass of numbers

[@Hushey]

perfect tutorial for explaining day night - however i want to take it further and replicate it: posted in problems and solutions 1 on your discord. cheers for the vids

[@deathpony3333]

Can you make a tutorial where you press a key/button and the time changes with the sun moving to the designated position. So like if it's noon and you press a button the sun moves down and it sets

[@MattAspland]

Great idea, I can add that to the additions for this :)

[@deathpony3333]

@@MattAspland I tried making it in my game, by using a flip flop and light source rotation, but the problem is the sun just snaps to the position I want instead of smoothly lowering

[@TrojanLube69]

@@deathpony3333 interpolate the values from current to desired target. Use a Rinterp node.

[@TrojanLube69]

@@deathpony3333 Make sure you stop adding rotation to the sun while the interpolation is happening. That way no jittering happens.

[@MrBenjaminPettit]

Hey Matt, Great tutorial as always. I'm trying to modify this slightly by adding a 'Make Date Time' node so I can have years and months tracked, however it doesn't seem to work. I have it working fine using the 'Make Timespan'. When I check the return value of the Seconds on the Make Date Time node the value doesn't change. If you know of any fix for this that would be great. Keep up the good work.

[@bowdy4952]

Hey matt, i have the cycle form different tutorial but when it's night, the sun light is coming from below the world and makes through objects. So can you check if that happens with your system as well? If not i'll change to this cycle system instantly ❤️

[@sarahm2640]

It's called light leaking and if you put a solid mesh under the landscape it will fix this. Sometimes the flat plane or the single poly things do this stuff.

[@trypresident774]

i seen in someone video were it was counting from 12noon to 12am instead of 12noon to 24am can u please make a vidoe on how to make it tell time from 12 to 12 thanks

[@Ausyaustingaming]

It’s not tracking stuck at 0 please help

[@IoSkyBoyoI]

This is very cool, What about assigning Named days to the days? So insted of it showing 0, it shows monday etc.

[@TheKingEsoko]

Hi, everything is set up and I have re watched the tutorial over about three times and everything is up to scratch as you have done it yet the time does not begin to count up instead it stays at Day 00 I 00:00. Is there anything that could be stopping this counting or if there is something that I am missing?

[@RastoDM]

Hi do you remember your solution? i have the same issue.

[@Elputokorky]

@@RastoDM did you find the solution for this?

[@RastoDM]

@@Elputokorky No, i was using unreal 5 though so i think the logic changed between engine updates. only a guess though

[@xrecruit]

does it work on UE5? because i can not get it to pass the variable information to the widget. Help.

[@RastoDM]

i was able to make in ue4 but have this issue in 5.. did you find a fix

[@xrecruit]

@@RastoDM 😑 yea a very long way around...and probably not to practical. I kept in the time in the level blueprint and cast to my character and the cast to the widget. 😮‍💨 it works but I think it can be done way more efficient in UE5

[@RastoDM]

@@xrecruit anyway you can share a couple examples?

[@xrecruit]

@@RastoDM uhh on here I don't know how ...but message me on discord if you have discord and I can screen shot you my work around

[@haddi8582]

Hey, I have a little problem, not with the code itself, but I want to make it, that I can sleep and then the time adjusts, this in itself is no problem and works, butI can't cast to the level blueprint and so i don't know how I am supposed to let it know when the character actually sleeps. Would anyone know a solution to this?

[@Hugo-yk8tk]

sunlight gets through my landscape when passing under it (at night), how can I fix it?

[@thatdudewithfacts]

when I change the lenght of the day to under 30, the sun doesnt come up on time, how can I slow down the time of day, to match the sun ?

[@thatdudewithfacts]

whenever I make the day shorter, the time doesnt change a accordingly

[@joachim2464]

I have the same problem. Did you find a solution?

[@thatdudewithfacts]

@@joachim2464 I didn't, sorry

[@khaledwaleed6582]

We need an explanation of how to automatically turn on the lights at night 😊 And Thanks

[@MattAspland]

As afore mentioned, it's on my list to do for this series :) All the best to you mate! :)

[@dryde7589]

Hi there the simpliest way from this stageto do this is to create a Bool variable into the function where you break the timespan and use a" >= branch" to set the bool for IsNigth or not and then "read" this Bool in your ligth behaviour Bp

[@itanshi]

What would cause the Sun to stop moving at nadir? (lowest point)

[@stevenwynn819]

A timely video. Ha ha.

[@joachim2464]

Hi, the cycle seems to work great at the speed 30. But if I lower it to make the day longer it stops working. It transitions to night and then it stops. What I am doing wrong?

[@Hushey]

timeline transition time is probably too high for it

[@Zygerboy]

Great tutorial but, This only works if the speed is around 10, if I change the speed say 5 or 2.5 the time mismatch with sun position and sunrise is now happening at 12 am.. That is totally strange and I laughed at it... There is some Number that needed to be changed somewhere in the level blueprint but am not sure.. need help pls :D

[@FlamyREC]

Did you manage to fix it?

[@Zygerboy]

​@@FlamyREC I deleted my whole project because I became so frustrated that I couldn't find a fix.

[@thatdudewithfacts]

how can I make the day longer, while keeping it alligned with the sun movement?

[@MattAspland]

You should be able to lower the speed float value that we created in the previous episode

[@thatdudewithfacts]

@@MattAspland for some reason, they time is messing up when I do that, the sun coms up very late at 11 am

[@MattAspland]

@@thatdudewithfacts Right okay, do you think you could copy and paste your code into the website down below, and send the link back here afterwards, that way I can take a proper look. Create more then 1 for different blueprints. blueprintue.com/

[@Slax06]

How to make it in multyplayer?

[@israeloconnor7381]

and yet another that i somehow screw up and doesnt work someone help me please

[@MattAspland]

Hey mate, which part isn't working for you? I.e. is it out of sync? Does it not appear on screen? Is it not counting at all? Etc

[@israeloconnor7381]

@@MattAspland it isnt counting up it seems to stay at all zeros even though i set it to midday too Edit:I've rewatched the tutorial and everything seems to be exactly the same I'm so confused

[@joker-jd3jd]

Man, I'm Turkish, I don't understand your video, how do I make the time and the weather slower

[@joker-jd3jd]

Hey

[@joker-jd3jd]

Please let the sleeping system come but move forward in time