Since there seem to be a number of people here who do care for scripting so much I have started building a "world" script. This is for anyone who is building open world type games. At the moment this script includes:
Configurable 24 hour clock (hours and minutes)
Lighting control (every game minute that occurs the lighting is adjusted from a min to max lighting)
Hunger control (warnings and starving damage)
Thirst control (warning and dehydration damage)
Auto-Healing (occurs only when food and thirst levels are up.)
A fog system (every game hour a new fog nearest and furthest is randomly generated based on a maximum and minimum you set
Adaptive culling system (auto hides everything beyond the fog limit)
+Water culling (hides water when its out of the fog range).
Also has a health limiting system (normally it can go up to an unlimited amount, this allows adding a maximum.)
I also placed in lightening flash effect and a "high" color effect done with the lighting.


All of these systems are configurable and working. If you didn't want to use any one of them you can simple set a variable to off thus not using one wont affect the others (except the clock most things depend on timing).

Before I release it I have Plans for a stats system, a saving/loading system (I have built a stand alone saving system, but still working on loading) and money (and timed earnings, like a regular pay check)
+I also want to do a little work on culling (as of now it is by player distance to a object, I want to calculate the player rotation and the angle, so i can hide whats behind you.)

I am not releasing the code quite yet, but I wanted to ask if there are any options people would want to include in a robust open world system?

Sounds great, but I'd wait until V1.009 is released before you make this public as culling has come a long way in recent weeks.

SC

That would be great, luckily if I nee to remove that part of the function its only a few lines long..

Annoyingly, the script is Now 501 lines long and has like less than half of the functions I want/need..

Still as far as culling is concerned, it just decides randomly where the Far fog distance is and hides everything behind it. Currently giving me 30% higher FPS.

Good news is the Money system is in and because there are too many outputs (food, water, money, time, date etc..) I have added a rotation system That changes each minute.

Looks like a great job exadion. Cant wait till you release it

Scripts very interesting, I wait for the date of release.