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[Waterline]

So what if I would like to read about my adventurer's deeds after, say, 100 years since his retirement or death?
To my knowledge the best possible way to run the history forward after world creation is by performing two week update before each new game that is started in the current world. Another way is to play as a bronze colossus and constantly run "wait" or "sleep" cycle. Or, maybe, by having some immortal creatuers in a fortress mode.
Obviously, all this are rather tedious workarounds, but maybe there is a way to somehow automatize time-skipping procedures?
I'd personally be glad to be able to decide the update time for the world before each new game in an existing world.
Sacrificing couple of hour for getting some years ahead is not that bad.

[Dunamisdeos]

Recommend turning off pausing/migrants and running a bronze colossus fort. You should be able to leave that there for ever while it runs time.

[Max™]

Alternatively:

Spoiler: this was broken but is fixed with explanation below (click to show/hide)

Code: (updatefinish.lua) [Select]

--Alter the date which the updating region process finishes at.
local gui = require 'gui'
local widgets = require 'gui.widgets'
local vw = df.global.gview.view.child
local yr
local mn
local dy


updater=defclass(updater,gui.Screen)
updater.focus_path = 'updatefinish'
function updater:init()
    self:addviews{
        widgets.Label{
            view_id="mainLabel",
            frame = {xalign=0,yalign=0},
            text={
{id="cmd", text=" Left/Right: Day, Up/Down: Week, Fast: Month/3 Months, Enter/Esc: To "},
{id="yr", text=self:callback("getYear")},{text="/"}, {id="mn", text=self:callback("getMonth")},{text="/"}, {id="dy", text=self:callback("getDay")},{text="     "}}
  }
}
end

function updater:getYear()
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
yr = vw.year
else
yr = df.global.cur_year
end
return yr
end

function updater:getMonth()
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
if vw.year_tick>=33600 then
mn = math.floor(vw.year_tick/33600)+1
else
mn = 1
end
else
mn = math.floor(df.global.cur_year_tick/33600)+1
end
return mn
end

function updater:getDay()
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
local mf = (mn-1)*28
local yf = math.floor(vw.year_tick/1200)
if vw.year_tick>=1200 then
dy = (yf-mf)+1
else
dy = 1
end
else
mf = (math.floor(df.global.cur_year_tick/33600))*28
yf = math.floor(df.global.cur_year_tick/1200)
dy = (yf-mf)+1
end
return dy
end

function updater:onInput(keys)
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
if keys.LEAVESCREEN or keys.SELECT then
        self:dismiss()
end
if keys.CURSOR_RIGHT then
if vw.year_tick>=402000 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = 0
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+1200
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_RIGHT_FAST then
if vw.year_tick>=369600 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = 0
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+33600
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_LEFT then
if vw.year_tick<=1200 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = 402000
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-1200
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_LEFT_FAST then
if vw.year_tick<=33600 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = 369600
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-33600
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_UP then
if vw.year_tick<=8400 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+394800
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-8400
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_UP_FAST then
if vw.year_tick<=100800 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+302400
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-100800
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_DOWN then
if vw.year_tick>=394800 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-394800
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+8400
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_DOWN_FAST then
if vw.year_tick>=302400 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-302400
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+100800
end
end
elseif not df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
if keys then
self:dismiss()
qerror("This has to be used on the updating region screen!")
end
end
self.super.onInput(self,keys)
end

function updater:onRenderBody(dc)
self._native.parent:render()
end

updater():show()


Was thinking about this script for a while now and saw this thread so since I was feeling a bit scripty I went ahead and figured it out. Took forever because I forgot to try using the existing portions of the display to control the script so I was trying to incorporate a dialog at first, then I wanted a widget selector, before figuring out I'm dumb and should just use the >< cursor to do it.

Note that the last frame is kinda misleading, it doesn't jump that far that fast, I was just showing that you could simply exit the script and it'll run forward to your selected date normally.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Could make a fort of 7 dwarves, set them up in a self sustaining fort on an island or deep in the mountains and get them to read the necronomicon then turn off the fps cap and interruptions and let it run a couple days

[Dunamisdeos]

Holy geez Max.

Nice.

[Max™]

Thankya, I feel like I could clean the script up more but after trying to get it to work like that for so long and still having no clue what I did, I'm terrified to try just yet.

[Waterline]

Thanks, Max, it is exactly what I needed.

[Waterline]

The only suggestion is to display the time skip in the main script title, since after a year one can not see how far away does cursor go.
Or there could be a prompt in which you set up the amount of time and after hitting "enter" it would re-calculate it in ticks and submit to world update.

[Max™]

I have no idea how to do that yet, also don't use that version, gonna remove it in a second.

This one doesn't have the hang error that it did:

Spoiler: figured out date and got excited and posted it below (click to show/hide)

Code: (updatefinish.lua) [Select]

--Alter the date which the updating region process finishes at.
local gui = require 'gui'
local widgets = require 'gui.widgets'
local vw = df.global.gview.view.child
local yr
local mn
local dy


updater=defclass(updater,gui.Screen)
updater.focus_path = 'updatefinish'
function updater:init()
    self:addviews{
        widgets.Label{
            view_id="mainLabel",
            frame = {xalign=0,yalign=0},
            text={
{id="cmd", text=" Left/Right: Day, Up/Down: Week, Fast: Month/3 Months, Enter/Esc: To "},
{id="yr", text=self:callback("getYear")},{text="/"}, {id="mn", text=self:callback("getMonth")},{text="/"}, {id="dy", text=self:callback("getDay")},{text="     "}}
  }
}
end

function updater:getYear()
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
yr = vw.year
else
yr = df.global.cur_year
end
return yr
end

function updater:getMonth()
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
if vw.year_tick>=33600 then
mn = math.floor(vw.year_tick/33600)+1
else
mn = 1
end
else
mn = math.floor(df.global.cur_year_tick/33600)+1
end
return mn
end

function updater:getDay()
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
local mf = (mn-1)*28
local yf = math.floor(vw.year_tick/1200)
if vw.year_tick>=1200 then
dy = (yf-mf)+1
else
dy = 1
end
else
mf = (math.floor(df.global.cur_year_tick/33600))*28
yf = math.floor(df.global.cur_year_tick/1200)
dy = (yf-mf)+1
end
return dy
end

function updater:onInput(keys)
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
if keys.LEAVESCREEN or keys.SELECT then
        self:dismiss()
end
if keys.CURSOR_RIGHT then
if vw.year_tick>=402000 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = 0
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+1200
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_RIGHT_FAST then
if vw.year_tick>=369600 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = 0
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+33600
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_LEFT then
if vw.year_tick<=1200 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = 402000
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-1200
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_LEFT_FAST then
if vw.year_tick<=33600 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = 369600
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-33600
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_UP then
if vw.year_tick<=8400 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+394800
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-8400
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_UP_FAST then
if vw.year_tick<=100800 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+302400
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-100800
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_DOWN then
if vw.year_tick>=394800 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-394800
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+8400
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_DOWN_FAST then
if vw.year_tick>=302400 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-302400
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+100800
end
end
elseif not df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
if keys then
self:dismiss()
qerror("This has to be used on the updating region screen!")
end
end
self.super.onInput(self,keys)
end

function updater:onRenderBody(dc)
self._native.parent:render()
end

updater():show()

I'll try to figure out how to have it display the current date but this is the first time I've ever actually thrown up text on screen for a script, everything else I've ever done has just used the in-game display/interface where appropriate but I needed an indicator that the selection was active and when it was dismissed so I had to figure out some basic widgetry.

The version I posted originally was borked because I derped on the "check if this is the right screen and exit if not" so it just screams at you "LA LA LA YOU ARE ON THE WRONG SCREEN HA HA FUCK YOU" until you devel/pop-screen it.

Now it just exits and shows the error message if used on the wrong screen because I couldn't make it not show on the right screen yet, better a graceful clear than nothing I guess?

[Dunamisdeos]

I'm probably gonna use this, so what do you do, run it from the main screen? Or run it while it is updating the time as per usual?

Sorry if this is a dumb question :3

This is amazingly cool.

[Waterline]

I have exclusively made a playable fire-breathing bullet-shooting innate necromancer bronze colossus to test your script (I have wiped some citizens from one town).

But apparently the history goes only one year ahead maximum...

EDIT: So I have ran it forth for three years.
The corpses are still on that streets and in the houses, which are used by new citizens now.

[Max™]

I figured it out!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Code: (updatefinish.lua) [Select]

--Alter the date which the updating region process finishes at.
local gui = require 'gui'
local widgets = require 'gui.widgets'
local vw = df.global.gview.view.child
local yr
local mn
local dy


updater=defclass(updater,gui.Screen)
updater.focus_path = 'updatefinish'
function updater:init()
    self:addviews{
        widgets.Label{
            view_id="mainLabel",
            frame = {xalign=0,yalign=0},
            text={
{id="cmd", text=" Left/Right: Day, Up/Down: Week, Fast: Month/3 Months, Enter/Esc: To "},
{id="yr", text=self:callback("getYear")},{text="/"}, {id="mn", text=self:callback("getMonth")},{text="/"}, {id="dy", text=self:callback("getDay")},{text="     "}}
  }
}
end

function updater:getYear()
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
yr = vw.year
else
yr = df.global.cur_year
end
return yr
end

function updater:getMonth()
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
if vw.year_tick>=33600 then
mn = math.floor(vw.year_tick/33600)+1
else
mn = 1
end
else
mn = math.floor(df.global.cur_year_tick/33600)+1
end
return mn
end

function updater:getDay()
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
local mf = (mn-1)*28
local yf = math.floor(vw.year_tick/1200)
if vw.year_tick>=1200 then
dy = (yf-mf)+1
else
dy = 1
end
else
mf = (math.floor(df.global.cur_year_tick/33600))*28
yf = math.floor(df.global.cur_year_tick/1200)
dy = (yf-mf)+1
end
return dy
end

function updater:onInput(keys)
if df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
if keys.LEAVESCREEN or keys.SELECT then
        self:dismiss()
end
if keys.CURSOR_RIGHT then
if vw.year_tick>=402000 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = 0
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+1200
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_RIGHT_FAST then
if vw.year_tick>=369600 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = 0
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+33600
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_LEFT then
if vw.year_tick<=1200 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = 402000
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-1200
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_LEFT_FAST then
if vw.year_tick<=33600 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = 369600
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-33600
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_UP then
if vw.year_tick<=8400 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+394800
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-8400
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_UP_FAST then
if vw.year_tick<=100800 then
vw.year = vw.year-1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+302400
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-100800
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_DOWN then
if vw.year_tick>=394800 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-394800
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+8400
end
elseif keys.CURSOR_DOWN_FAST then
if vw.year_tick>=302400 then
vw.year = vw.year+1
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick-302400
else
vw.year_tick = vw.year_tick+100800
end
end
elseif not df.viewscreen_update_regionst:is_instance(vw) then
if keys then
self:dismiss()
qerror("This has to be used on the updating region screen!")
end
end
self.super.onInput(self,keys)
end

function updater:onRenderBody(dc)
self._native.parent:render()
end

updater():show()

Figured out how to add a date display (and because goddammit what's the point otherwise) had it show the month day# rather than the year day# though again I'm sure there's an easier way than I used.

I'm probably gonna use this, so what do you do, run it from the main screen? Or run it while it is updating the time as per usual?

Sorry if this is a dumb question :3

This is amazingly cool.

Run it while on the updating world/region/calendar thing, otherwise it just exits and prints a message if on the wrong screen, and yeah, having it fully working and displaying the target date is indeed amazingly cool.

[Waterline]

Works like charm, thank you good sir!

Now it shows that there was some poor Goblin, who was suffering for three years after my rampage and died because he suffocated on bronze (I used molten bronze, gaseous bronze, bronze dust).


How would have I known this otherwise? Interesting details.

[Max™]

Awesome. I'm really satisfied with this one, and hey, thanks for kicking off the "yanno, I was thinking about writing a script for that" motivation last night!

[Waterline]

Great coincidence, indeed.