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I was always bugged by SH3 weather because it doesnt change for a long time after loading game. That`s why i like your work direction.

I began a career with your mod and it worked great, until today i loaded yesterdays patrol and decided to measure how much time it takes for weather to change. I was checking weather every hour while being at x256 or x512 time compression. It seems my weather is stuck at "No clouds, no rain, excellent visibility, wind 0 kts".
Here is the log:

Patrol was loaded at about 16:40 (game time) september 6 1939. First weather change (wind direction only!) happened around 03:59 september 8. Wind direction changed several times and freezed again for a long time. There were several such wind direction changes but no other changes at all!

Maybe, the problem is with my sh3.exe file - it is "old" .exe file with starforce manually removed, but your mod is supposed to work with all .exe. And "Weather Transitions Test Fix V2" works fine...

Maybe that "magic" weather of 0 fog, 0 cloud, 0 wind may cause such problems? Or is such weather already a symptom of some serious weather system problems on my rig?

Thanks for your help!

@H.sie,

I have only just noticed your post #149 asking for my input, sorry about that.

I prefer your bad weather fix (changing clouds and fog) to my own (changing windspeeds), so probably it will be less confusing for everyone if you give only the link to your own bad weather fix in the first post of this thread.

Two more proper war patrols completed here, each of two months in late 1944, with NYGM and with your bad weather fix installed (also with your V15D beta 4 mod installed, with repairs disabled) - no problems at all. The weather patterns look very good.

Yes, I would like to see your commented assembly code, please, for instructional purposes. Thanks very much for the offer.

Stiebler.

@ avee, Your log only shows weather for part of a day only!!:06: this mod is to fix the old bug of weather being stuck for weeks (mostly with poor fog/visibility), your results seem fine to me, see how it goes over a whole patrol.:hmmm:

@Reece: His logs show 3-4 days. scroll down the list box.

@avee: I also had such a behaviour during testing in very high time-compression (1024) and in a single-mission. but since I was not able to reproduce this, I didn't pay much attention to it. After reloading all worked well. So I still don't know if that is related to my fix or not.

Any others have this behaviour??

I repeated test run from the same save 2 more times.

First time first weather change happened 36 hours after loading and changed wind direction and clouds (light). Several days later visibility became moderate. Several more days later wind speed changed to 1 m/s and clouds to heavy.

Second time first weather change again happened around 36 hours after loading and changed wind direction and visibility (moderate).

It seems that either i am very unlucky or this part works wrong:

Start value for time counter is randomly chosen (and this worked well in my tests), so I think that 2 trials are not enough to get a reliable result. Additionally, at the start of a new weather period sometimes weather does not change. So, Please, give it a chance and some more tests. If it does not work, I'll look into it.

Thank you for helping!

Providing h.sie doesn't mind, can we have this thread along with h.sie's realistic repair thread stickied please? Both are SH3 essentials.

Good idea, I'll take a look into that later as I would probably need to clear a bit the stickies before, or risk cluttering too much the main page:hmmm:

I think there is currently no need to make them sticky ATM:

1) Too less downloads. So these mods are essential - for a minority.

2) They seem to be sticky already by high activity.

3) Not 100% clear that Bad Weather Fix works. See posts from user avee.

Not only these mods are essential, even that minority is essential since it consists of Hardcore Kaleuns... ;)

avee is right!

under certain conditions, during game load, the weather time counter is still initialized with 0 instead of a random number. I already found the reason, so expect a new version in the next time.

no worry, the current weather fix V1 beta works, but the first weather change always occurs after 20-40 hours, and not randomly, as I promised. this will be fixed soon.

THANK YOU AVEE!

Multiplayer
 

Would it be possible to have a version of your mod that changed the weather at a fixed, not random interval.

I mainly play multiplayer and would love to have the weather change during the game for obvious reasons this would have to be the shorts time possible, 1/2 hour? It would have to be non random in some wy to avoid sync problems with other players, wouldnt it?

Ridley

@ridley: oops, I never thought about multi-players, since I never played this. My patch won't work for multiplayers, because weather changes are randomly generated and so maybe weather could change to good for one player and to bad for the second. I don't know if there is a sync-mechanism included.

I even cannot test it, since I have only one PC (XP and Win7 in dual boot).

Sorry to say, but for multiplayers I recommend to use stock SH3 waether.

If there was a way to remove the randomisation and set the interval to say 1/2 hour I would love to give it a try in multiplayer. There is a sync option BTW.

Ridley

Regarding Multiplayer: It is very much possible that the random seed is synchronized for all multiplayers - that means, that the generated random numbers (and thus the weather changes and intervals) are the same for all connected players. it is worth testing.

you want 30 minutes weather changes??? common are 20-40 hours