The weather changes in periods
One of the SH3 bugs is the time period resets when you save and reload
If you save when the weather is good then it will stay good for the next few days
Then you save again and it resets

As you play 1x the weather doesnt have chance to change before you save

Depending on the mod you are using the days till weather changes are around 6\7 days

IIRC the line - "WeatherRndInterval=6" controls this

This line is in all 3 campaign files - Scr\Rnd and Lnd

All 3 need to read the same

Try changing the settings to - say - WeatherRndInterval=0.3

Which SHOULD mean the weather changes every 8 hours - I think :rotfl:

Depends how long you play at a time for

I recommend only making the changes while in port just in case

SH3's weather system is terrible!
A few lines of simple maths could have got a really good equation for generating random weather, but the SH3 Devs didn't do this.
Instead we have a very basic random weather generator that favors extremely stormy and extremely calm weather too much.

Anyway, the random weather generation depends on game time and not system time.
That means you have just been lucky! :up:

Your unchanging weather is a problem with the way SH3 makes weather. The problem is that same at all TC levels.


*edit* Oh, yer - saving and loading the game is going to make the weather period reset like wooly said. If you are saving and loading the game more than once every weather period then the weather will never change.

bummer yea 1x save/exit/continue all the time --this is no good almost in port will give that file adjustment a trail run when i shut down got some new hardware to install also ---new fan-- :cool: I run 3 to keep her cool :up:

whuddya talkin bout?
 

I have my game setup so tc doesnt go any higher than 512. Doesnt seem to change anything. I know there are planes around when I hear depth charges/machine gun fire hitting my poor viic. ,, then the game slows down to 1tc. Dont get me started in rainy weather. never, never go over 64 tc in rain/fog.

Wise words :yep: :up:

if i change it to=1" weather will change 24 hours?

Yes, it will have a chance to change every 24 hours. Of course it might "change" to exactly what it was before, in which case you will see no change.

Of course if you dont play for more than 24hours you will never see a change

tryed it with 1 only thing that changed was the wind direction and not every day :hmm: tc- 4 days


so it may chamge or it may not-- ok guesss ill leave it and see what happens on my next patrol

You can try SH3 Weather... I use it and it gives a weather adapted to the time of your patrol (you even have a "Mediterranean" option ) Doesn't suppress storms though, I am in one since 5 days on the outskirts of the Bay of Biscay (around BF 47) Wind is turning but still blowing in the 30 knts... But it's November and I know the place IRL, that's no surprise...:D

set the starting weather to 15 windspeed ans set the interval at 1 (((tryed 0.3 but didnt see a change either i need to go back to port before change or it didnt read it as .03 just 3))) at least this starts me in more believable condition flat calm for a week is rare in any northen waters even in the summer

I forgot to add that SH3 weather let you decide for random weather based on your patrol month or you can input yourself what you want. (I use random...)

weather file? location? dont see a weather file in there

It's a program called SH3 Weather...;)

yea but where is it located c/program files/ubi/ sh3/weather?


mission editor your can change weather every 2 hours

How can I explain it... :D
It's a program you have to download and it's a zip file with the readme inside...
If you don't find it, send me a pm with a mail address I can send it, it's around 300 k if I remember.

i got ya ok!! thats sounds like what i am lookin for :cool: dont have that yea zip it over to me codmander@comcast.net hope you got cable


meanwhile in the mission editor they use an -h- in the weather change for hours 5h being 5 hours i will also try that in campaign folders:hmm:

Hi Corsair, this is my first post here in this beautiful forum. I've been following all the post for information so happened that I've got problems with weather too.

So could you also send the SH3 Weather zip file to me as I think I need it too. my email yuzrizal@yahoo.com :up:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...hlight=weather

You will find download mirrors in this topic. You may have to look further than the first page.

Welcome to the forum spana !

@ codmander and spana :

Mail with file sent to both of you.

Gute Jagd !