Stiebler--
Sorry if I stepped on the other thread concerning this topic. I was just about to post in that thread, but since you are "here" and that thread looks to be dead, I will continue here.
What you said about the weather algorithm causing the wind to quickly max out seems to make sense. I have thought the same thing myself, that the program first decides if the wind either increases or decreases before deciding
how much the wind increases, with the result that if the wind is already at max and the program says the wind should increase, the result is it stays at max.
However, if this is true, why doesn't the wind stay at speed "0" for long periods of time as well?
Regarding the difference between "stock" and "test" settings, again I think we are in substantial agreement. Overall, the way SH3 handles weather is like a pretty blunt instrument--not a lot of room for fine tuning. OTOH, I think there is also more going on beneath the surface than we really know about the weather handling in SH3. For example, see my next post for some interesting discoveries I have made concerning the scene.dat file (with thanks to Sober for bringing this up in the "other" thread).
