Can I force weather changes?

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Originally Posted by Krono99

Sure Gap. And I think the weather is to good at some points. I know its a subsim and everyone's like uhh its a Simulator not real life. But I think it would be cool if maybe there was violent weather. Most of the time its nothing to fear especially if your in a sub and your 70-100 meters down but you cant stay underwater forever. Sooner or later you have to surface and what if you surface your boat into a huge thunderstorm with horrid winds and your xo spots a Battlecruiser just as it spots you with its lights? Anyway still a fun game. Much love to subsim and everyone who takes the time to make the mods that make Silent Hunter all the more greater

Originally Posted by plj

Just so you know ... if you can make it so that my weather is between stormy and hurricane most of the time, I'd immediately sacriffice my deckgun for that :p

Originally Posted by Rickster1

I agree I also use dynamic env mod and think the weather is far too good, the best (worst weather) I have come across is in sh3 GWX and that is grey weather, bit like here in the UK !!!

What is going on here, guys?

I was allready prepared to face harsh complaints about sustained bad weather using SH5 and DynEnv. Some joker has even tagged DynEnv's home thread with a "fog" tag (), but I swear this is the first time in almost three years of activity that I ear about a "too good weather" SH5 problem.

I has nonetheless allready been noted that, unlike foggy and overcast weather, rain and thunderstom occurrences are a bit too low... As for wave height, in game they are strictly connected with win speeds, and wind speed is limited to 15 m/s. A workaround to this problem could be increasing wave height settings, unrespective of their relative wind spees. We could for instance set 15 mps wind waves to be as high as one would expect from a 30 mps wind gale, and we could ask our talented UI modders to multiply the wind speed reported in game by two. Nonetheless, I am not sure how ship physics would react to those huge waves

Originally Posted by Trevally.

I just love the thunder storms in SH5

Me too. Pity that they are not very common.
For more variation, I think I could easily add new lightning textures and thunder sound effects to DynEnv, but increasing thunderstorm occurrence is unfortunately not as easy...

[Krono99]

Nasty weather is one thing that would be cool but,
Im not sure how I would react if I was on the surface
or even at periscope depth and saw a 100ft wave headed at me going
500 mp/h. Id probably crash dive and hope for the best lol.

[plj]

You'd better ... afaik, storms can damage your sub .. either that or I was in a storm AND a minfield or under fire without noticing that :p

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Originally Posted by plj

You'd better ... afaik, storms can damage your sub .. either that or I was in a storm AND a minfield or under fire without noticing that :p

For sure high waves can damage AI surface vessels. Woth a try on a surfaced U-boat with RSD enabled

[plj]

Originally Posted by gap

For sure high waves can damage AI surface vessels. Woth a try on a surfaced U-boat with RSD enabled

That's how I found out: Cool!! ... thunderstorm .. lets watch from the tower ... nice waves ... whut ? damage reports ?? This stuff is realistic ..... NEW DEPTH 20 meters!!

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Originally Posted by plj

That's how I found out: Cool!! ... thunderstorm .. lets watch from the tower ... nice waves ... whut ? damage reports ?? This stuff is realistic ..... NEW DEPTH 20 meters!!

Cool!

This answers a question which has been asked several times on the forum: why not to model higher waves? We can have them, but AI ship physics and AI sub behaviour should be updated accordingly...