So....what DOES make the rain go away?

XanderF · 08-23-05, 02:33 AM

I seem to recall some time back there was a bug that once time acceleration was EVER set to '1024x' in a game, you'd never see any rain in that game session.

But I THOUGHT that was fixed.

Anyway, I'm curious. I've never seen rain in the game. Not once. Since buying the game all those months back, I've had a GeForce 6200TC, GeForce 6600GT, GeForce 6800GT, Radeon X300, and a Radeon X800XL in two completely different PCs.

And I've NEVER seen rain in the game! Stormy weather, sure. Weather so bad the F&#)@%* crew wouldn't get on the deck gun, and the watch were all in rain gear with incredibly overcast skies and lightning flashing everywhere....but not once a drop of rain!

Thoughts?

Damo1977 · 08-23-05, 02:41 AM

Can't really help you, sorry, but I get rain and when it rains it pours!! so I wonder why you don't, a most interesting problem

Nopileo · 08-23-05, 02:45 AM

Do you ask for a weather report in bad weather? If it says there is rain, but you can't see any, you have at least narrowed it down to being a hardware issue.

I don't see rain very often, but when I do, it usually increases to max after a while, and it becomes almost impossible to see clearly through it. And normally it's accompanied by heavy fog. This is not realistic, but I pretend that the report says 'poor visibility' instead, which makes it acceptable (maybe it's possible to hack the weather message?).

So you've actually been quite lucky so far, I think, if you've had no rain...

Jail · 08-23-05, 02:46 AM

Sounds strange I've played last night and found a large convoy on my return to base.Used TC 1024 a lot of times to get to my assigned grid.
I had two eels left. It was storm and rain. Not just a little bit rain but a lot. Gave me good cover to intercept the convoy and sink a troop ship with my last to eels.
SHIII 1.4
Gf6600 gt

McBeck · 08-23-05, 03:57 AM

Confirm that. I get rain too, eventhough I used TC 1024

Rain workes better in 1.4 too:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopi...034&highlight=

TDK1044 · 08-23-05, 10:03 AM

If you're patched to 1.4, the rain should work well. I get a lot of rain.

U-104 · 08-23-05, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by McBeck

Confirm that. I get rain too, eventhough I used TC 1024

me too.

FAdmiral · 08-23-05, 12:39 PM

I got rain for 2 days & nights straight and I have been to 1024.
It eventually stopped but had storms & rough seas for 2 more
days. Then it cleared to partly cloudy for 1 more day and then
went to calm seas finally. When you surface, if crew comes up to
the conning tower in raincoats, you can't use the deck or flak gun.
When they are in reg. shirts, you can....

JIM

PS. Using Patch 1.4b & RUB 1.41 (X600 PCIE video card)

Elder-Pirate · 08-23-05, 02:16 PM

@XanderF

what DOES make the rain go away? In your case no rain clouds :rotfl:

gdogghenrikson · 08-23-05, 05:04 PM

I never play above 512x

Damo1977 · 08-23-05, 05:40 PM

I should have mentioned that I play at 4096, and well as I said in the post above it still rains

Von Scheerbach · 08-23-05, 05:58 PM

I WISH I could get rid of the darn rain!!!!

I was in a storm for almost 3 weeks one time....followed me across the North Sea, down the western coast of Ireland, and down past Spain until I was at the Canary Islands....

And I have no luck hunting anything in a storm....I never seem to catch sight of anything until it's about 350 meters away, and by the time I fire it's closed to under 300 and the torps don't arm....

panthercules · 08-23-05, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nopileo

I pretend that the report says 'poor visibility' instead, which makes it acceptable (maybe it's possible to hack the weather message?).

Actually, it's quite possible to "hack" the message file (just make the changes to the file "...\SilentHunterIII\data\Menu\de_menu.txt" (or the corresponding English language version) - I've done that before to fix the incorrect speed messages so they correspond with the engine telegraph settings.

In line 4128 of that file (the German one), you could replace "nebel" (fog) with "Sichtbehinderung" (visibility impairment/obstruction).

I haven't had a chance to test this, but it seems like it should work - I'll go give it a whirl and see what happens.

[edit] just tried it - works great - PLUS while on my test run I saw my first task force (in all these many months of playing)

While I was patrolling on the surface in daylight just off the east coast of England in mid September 1939, having just sunk my first ship of this career the previous night (a nice British C2), I sighted a warship ahead coming out of the mists about 4km away. I dove to periscope depth and took a look, and several more ships began appearing - eventually it looked like 2 heavy units (maybe KGV class, but probably cruisers) escorted by 4 destroyers, but they were too far away and moving too fast on a diverging course for me to have any hope of getting a shot at them with my little Type IIA. Somewhat frustrating to have to let them steam away like that, but still, it was an awesome sight.

XanderF · 08-23-05, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TDK1044

If you're patched to 1.4, the rain should work well. I get a lot of rain.

Patched to 1.4b.

I dunno?

PukingDog · 08-24-05, 07:54 AM

Has anyone else noticed when the weather is bad, if you sneak into a harbor it always seems to greatly improve the weather when you return to open seas? Several times now I have been on a long patrol with relentless 15kn winds and heavy fog, but if I snuck into a harbor, within a few hours the sun is shining and the seas are like glass. Is that a bug? The protected harbor definitely makes the seas calmer, and it seems to fool the program into ending the storm. Of course, I could be off base here, as I only have a few isolated data points to make that conclusion.

08-23-05, 02:33 AM	#1
XanderF Samurai Navy Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 554 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	So....what DOES make the rain go away? I seem to recall some time back there was a bug that once time acceleration was EVER set to '1024x' in a game, you'd never see any rain in that game session. But I THOUGHT that was fixed. Anyway, I'm curious. I've never seen rain in the game. Not once. Since buying the game all those months back, I've had a GeForce 6200TC, GeForce 6600GT, GeForce 6800GT, Radeon X300, and a Radeon X800XL in two completely different PCs. And I've NEVER seen rain in the game! Stormy weather, sure. Weather so bad the F&#)@%* crew wouldn't get on the deck gun, and the watch were all in rain gear with incredibly overcast skies and lightning flashing everywhere....but not once a drop of rain! Thoughts?

08-23-05, 02:41 AM	#2
Damo1977 Captain Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 487 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Can't really help you, sorry, but I get rain and when it rains it pours!! so I wonder why you don't, a most interesting problem __________________ \"If man is called to be to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well\" Martin Luther King, Jr

08-23-05, 02:46 AM	#4
Jail A-ganger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: No(r)way Posts: 74 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Sounds strange I've played last night and found a large convoy on my return to base.Used TC 1024 a lot of times to get to my assigned grid. I had two eels left. It was storm and rain. Not just a little bit rain but a lot. Gave me good cover to intercept the convoy and sink a troop ship with my last to eels. SHIII 1.4 Gf6600 gt __________________ Don't let them see you come

08-23-05, 03:57 AM	#5
McBeck Admiral Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,027 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Confirm that. I get rain too, eventhough I used TC 1024 Rain workes better in 1.4 too: http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopi...034&highlight= __________________ "I like subcommanders...they dont have time for bull**!" Proud member of the Subsim army of zombies Becks website

08-23-05, 12:39 PM	#8
FAdmiral Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Posts: 1,079 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	I got rain for 2 days & nights straight and I have been to 1024. It eventually stopped but had storms & rough seas for 2 more days. Then it cleared to partly cloudy for 1 more day and then went to calm seas finally. When you surface, if crew comes up to the conning tower in raincoats, you can't use the deck or flak gun. When they are in reg. shirts, you can.... JIM PS. Using Patch 1.4b & RUB 1.41 (X600 PCIE video card) __________________ If you\'re not taking losses, you\'re not doing enough. RAdm. Kelly Turner, USN ********************************** www.fairtax.org

08-23-05, 02:45 AM	#3
Nopileo Watch Officer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 333 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Do you ask for a weather report in bad weather? If it says there is rain, but you can't see any, you have at least narrowed it down to being a hardware issue. I don't see rain very often, but when I do, it usually increases to max after a while, and it becomes almost impossible to see clearly through it. And normally it's accompanied by heavy fog. This is not realistic, but I pretend that the report says 'poor visibility' instead, which makes it acceptable (maybe it's possible to hack the weather message?). So you've actually been quite lucky so far, I think, if you've had no rain...

08-23-05, 10:03 AM	#6
TDK1044 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 2,674 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	If you're patched to 1.4, the rain should work well. I get a lot of rain.

08-23-05, 02:16 PM	#9
Elder-Pirate Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Morris, Illinois USA Posts: 1,090 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	@XanderF what DOES make the rain go away? In your case no rain clouds :rotfl: __________________

08-23-05, 05:04 PM	#10
gdogghenrikson Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 978 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I never play above 512x __________________ And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown.

08-23-05, 05:40 PM	#11
Damo1977 Captain Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 487 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I should have mentioned that I play at 4096, and well as I said in the post above it still rains __________________ \"If man is called to be to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well\" Martin Luther King, Jr

08-23-05, 05:58 PM	#12
Von Scheerbach A-ganger Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 79 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I WISH I could get rid of the darn rain!!!! I was in a storm for almost 3 weeks one time....followed me across the North Sea, down the western coast of Ireland, and down past Spain until I was at the Canary Islands.... And I have no luck hunting anything in a storm....I never seem to catch sight of anything until it's about 350 meters away, and by the time I fire it's closed to under 300 and the torps don't arm....

08-24-05, 07:54 AM	#15
PukingDog Watch Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Yokuska, Japan Posts: 16 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Has anyone else noticed when the weather is bad, if you sneak into a harbor it always seems to greatly improve the weather when you return to open seas? Several times now I have been on a long patrol with relentless 15kn winds and heavy fog, but if I snuck into a harbor, within a few hours the sun is shining and the seas are like glass. Is that a bug? The protected harbor definitely makes the seas calmer, and it seems to fool the program into ending the storm. Of course, I could be off base here, as I only have a few isolated data points to make that conclusion.