time_of_day

The scene's clock: the hour of the day running at a set speed (48 real minutes a day as in GTA V; 0 stops it). From the hour it places the sun as the real sky does at the latitude and date (sunrise, a high noon sun, a low golden sun throwing long shadows, night), and blends the colour grade through the day on top of camera_look: warm hazy mornings and golden hours, cool blue hours, night exposure. One per scene. Scripts: game.timeOfDay() reads it, game.timeOfDay({hour: 21, day_minutes: 0}) jumps and stops it.

In scene text

time_of_day { hour 1  day_minutes 1  latitude 1 }

Add it in the Inspector (Add Component), in scene text as above, or ask your AI. Fields you leave out keep their defaults.

Fields 9

Field	Type	Unit / range	What it does
`hour`	number	0 … 24	Hour the clock starts at (17.5 = 5:30 PM).
`day_minutes`	number	min, 0 … 1440	Real minutes a whole day takes while playing (48 as in GTA V; 0 stops the clock at hour).
`latitude`	number	deg, -89 … 89	Latitude (north positive): how high the sun climbs and how long the day is. Caldera Island: 18.
`day_of_year`	number	1 … 365	Day of the year (80 the March equinox, 172 midsummer in the north, 355 midwinter).
`north`	number	deg, -360 … 360	Degrees the scene's north is turned by (0: the scene's -z is north).
`drive_sun`	true / false	—	Place the sun (directional_light) from the clock.
`drive_look`	true / false	—	Blend the colour grade through the day's keys on top of camera_look.
`run_in_editor`	true / false	—	Run the clock in the editor too (a preview of the day); otherwise only while playing.
`keys`	list of text	—	The day's look keys replacing the built-in day: "<hour> exposure=0.2 temperature=0.3 haze=1.5 bloom=0.05 saturation=0.1 contrast=0 local_exposure=0.3" (offsets from camera_look; haze multiplies), blended smoothly between hours and past midnight.

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