Unity Increasing a value and then decrease it (DayNightCycle)

Question

I have a cycle and want the cycle bar, having a value range from 0 to 1 and back to 0.

So, currently I use this code

public class DayNightCycle : MonoBehaviour
{
    private float currentTime = 0; // current time of the day
    private float secondsPerDay = 120; // maximum time per day
    private Image cycleBar; // ui bar

    private void Start()
    {
        cycleBar = GetComponent<Image>(); // reference
        UpdateCycleBar(); // update the ui
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        currentTime += Time.deltaTime; // increase the time
        if (currentTime >= secondsPerDay) // day is over?
            currentTime = 0; // reset time

        UpdateCycleBar(); // update ui
    }

    private void UpdateCycleBar()
    {
        cycleBar.rectTransform.localScale = new Vector3(currentTime / secondsPerDay, 1, 1);
    }
}

but now I want a behaviour as mentioned by the picture above. How can I increase currentTime from 0 to 1 and then back to 0?

The problem: My cycle bar should still increase from the left to the right.

The night should last 40% of the maximum time, the other ones 20%.

Answer 1

If you are looking for a way to increase a variable from 0 to 1 then from 1 to 0, Mathf.PingPong is the answer. There are many other ways to do this but Mathf.PingPong is made for tasks like this one.

public float speed = 1.19f;

void Update()
{
    //PingPong between 0 and 1
    float time = Mathf.PingPong(Time.time * speed, 1);
    Debug.Log(time);
}

Answer 2

Do this by Mathf.Sin() function. But you must get absolute value of it. Mathf.abs(mathf.sin()); It will change between 0 to 1 then back to zero. But its not smooth in zero.

Or offset sin function by +1 at the end multiply it by 0.5f to let it back to one again.

float timer = 0;
float cycle = 0;
public float speed = 1;

void Update()
{
    timer += Time.deltaTime;
    Cycle();
}

void Cycle()
{
    cycle = (Mathf.Sin(timer) + 1) * 0.5f;
}