Question day/night areas

Was wondering how to go about this but have no clue.
Imagine an area like midgaard which is normal during the daylight,
but then during night hours the descriptions change to ominous descriptions,
the mobs turn evil like a dog would turn into a werewolf at night. EQ worn
would also go from good aligned to evil. So it would be two areas in one, only
I'd like to know a way to do it without having two area files. I know it can be
done with scripting, just not sure how to go about it.

Trigedit can not edit room descriptions yet. But you can use a room-time trigger to change things. Below is an example.

So I'd be able to change items and mobs, but nothing I can do about the room description?

I think because you're technically changing an entire description via OLC, that a trigger can't handle that.

Maybe if there were some way to force a player into a different room vnum without them realizing that the actual vnum is changing... But you would have to build the exact same zone twice, once in daylight and once in nighttime.

I don't know if something like that is even possible, but to my knowledge, the only way to force a player character to move is to summon them.

Correct, you can't change a room description. But you could use Silvaria's idea of using %teleport% to send the character to the night version of the vnum you want.

If you want to see an example of writing the area twice to fake day/night code, check out 56000 on tba. Make sure nohassle is off, go downstairs and north. You can wander around a bit or just stand in a room that has at least one mob in it and wait. You should see mobs moving in and out and eventually you'll see what looks like a repop message. When you see that (or the mobs seem different) look at the room again.

It's important to start at 56000 and not in a random room because that can throw off the triggers. If nohassle is on, you won't see the area in action. You can stay imm level as long as nohassle is off.

This area is one trigger off from being released as a donated area, but it's been like this for over two years (sorry to all those who were told it was going to be very soon over two years ago!) If you check it out and find any problems, just add to this thread please so I can fix them before it goes live.

It was written mainly to play with fake day/night code, mob entry and exit and mob transforms.