[question/suggestion] How to get monthPassed?

[Kozinsky]

I want to know how many months have passed since the game started (the “monthsPassed” parameter from the save file). As far as I understand, it is currently impossible to know this and I propose to add a new operation that will read this parameter from the game. For my purposes, I just need to know this parameter, although someone may need to change it:

Code: [Select]

Script operations:
Name: GeoscapeGame.getMonthsPassed            Args: [ptr GeoscapeGame] [var int]
Name: GeoscapeGame.setMonthsPassed            Args: [ptre GeoscapeGame] [int]

[Yankes]

Ok, I can add `getMonthsPassed` with set is bit diffret as this could mess up other parts of engine (as it could derail mission scripts and events generation)

[Meridian]

mission script and event generation would be "just" confused, but other parts (e.g. Graphs, Monthly funding, etc.) would straight up be corrupted and crash... `setMonthsPassed` is not something that can be exposed

`getMonthsPassed` is ok

[Yankes]

ok, thanks for confirmation, I did not yet check this part of code to see how critical this value is.