here you go guys this is my best theory for why things need to be kicked into life...
first the previous settings are stored some where (saved game file perhaps)
if the new settings are diffferent then it defaults to an unchanging set up..
now the interesting part perhaps...
why does it wake up eventually?
is it purely a matter of time passed...?
if so you could simply head out to sea a bit stop and hit time excell..
is it distance travelled...? it isnt consistent so thats unlikely...
so if it isnt time passed...my gues is that there are distinct areas of the game map where the game checks to see if the weather should be reloaded..in the same way that the game has Artic sea sky colours atlantic and med sea and sky colours..and so on..
there is a map in the env fold which shows the world as a black and white view with possibly these distinct areas marked on it..
now what if as well as the sky sea colours changing for the different areas..the weather it self changes as you cross these demarcation lines..?
if so that would explain the wake up call..as the game would check it's settings and reload them..thus instigating the new settings from the campaign RND
i have often wondered if editing this black and white map creating a chess board of smaller black and white squares right across the world might have some interesting in game effects on the weather...
if indeed the game does change the sea sky colours on the fly (as it were)
and it does use this otherwise strange map as it's reference file for the demarcation lines then you could have the sky sea colours changing alomost constantly as well..from artic to med to atlantic etc...and if there are sme previuosly unoticed changes in the weather that go with these zones..(artic/atlantic/med) are there less storms in the med? etc....
then this would not only spice up the eye candy it would radicaly spice up the weather too..
anyhuw this IS the mod forum after all..so nothing needs to be proved here regarding this theory...just a thought
anyhuw for some reason the game will at some point reload the settings from the campaign rnd there by useing the new weather entrys...why when and where is the puzzle..
just another thought
if Sabres correct in this
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And I have actually seen clouds in the distance ahead of me, with clear skies behind and above, and watched as we sailed along and they got closer and closer and eventually all around me....................totally cool.
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then that is some thing in itself..as the weather normally loads from directly above the player thru a strange warphole..(you know the one)......this sort of weather transition described by Sabre would indeed be the desired and realistic type of weather change needed for any sim to have proper weather fronts ala real life...rather than just random changes centred over the player...
SH2 had this in spades...in fact the weather system in SH2 was so far in advance of the weather system in SH3 that it practically renders SH3 a laughing stock in this regard