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I am creating an RPG called Questopolis. It's quite typical: monsters spawn at night, you can fight them, you earn experience, etc.

I need the monsters to spawn at night and to disappear at day. So I have created a variable called "light", to determine when the monsters need to appear.

The stage also needs to darken and lighten, so this is the script I have right now:

when I receive [started v]
forever
repeat (100)
change [brightness v] effect by (-1)
change [light v] by (-1)
wait (4) secs
end
repeat (100)
change [brightness v] effect by (1)
change [light v] by (1)
wait (2) secs
end
end

This script used to work just fine. But as my RPG expanded, I added an inn. When you slept in the inn, the light level would increase back to maximum. The script to do this looks something like this:

when I receive [sleep v]
set [light v] to (100)

However, this script can't change the stage's brightness. So when you finish sleeping, the sky is still dark.

What changes should I make to these scripts? I would appreciate it if you could help.

-jedidiahzhu

Note: If you would like to check out the project, go to: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/jedidiahzhu/2977230