storms: i hate the weather model.

[AVGWarhawk]

The weather is ok for me. I believe quite a few weather systems were just miserable for days. Weeks? No! But many days? Yes. Heck, even where I live I have seen 5-6 days of nothing but rain. So IMHO it is not to far off the mark. Also, I think some of the hurricanes in the game are quite weak. Some of these hurricanes were strong enough to break the backs of some vessels.

[Corsair]

A hurricane is around 100 knots winds. The most we get in SH3 is 30 knots, and anybody who has lived in these regions will tell you that you get a lot more than 30 knots storms.
So in fact the weather in SH3 is tuned down. Only problem is to have heavy fog with high speed winds, but this is solved by using SH3 Weather as stated above.
The problem of weather change comes also from the SH3 function that resets the "weather change counter" to zero every time you make a save.

[stabiz]

I have always wanted calm sea AND fog, that would be so creepy and nice.

[Morts]

hmm
early morning with a nice red sun rise and medium fog with calm seas...oh god id like that

well if a better fog could be made

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by Morts

hmm
early morning with a nice red sun rise and medium fog with calm seas...oh god id like that

well if a better fog could be made

I remember once having something like that in the Med. It was very nice. I love the Med colours...

[johan_d]

Will you now stop about that fog! it isnt in SH3, wir haben das niemals gesehn!

[johan_d]

fog.. fog.. fog.. verdamte nebel.. niemals, niemals gesehn..

I never had any fog.... always great visibility.. I want some fog!

[Brag]

I miss seeing cumulous clouds. Especially in the Caribbean.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by stabiz

I have always wanted calm sea AND fog, that would be so creepy and nice.

I had this once. Really close to the west side of England. A Liberty came out of the fog on calm seas. I was tracking it with sonar only as I could only see it at about 800m and just a ghostly shape at that. Anyway she was 90 degrees to me going slow and down she goes.

[Gezoes]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I had this once. Really close to the west side of England. A Liberty came out of the fog on calm seas. I was tracking it with sonar only as I could only see it at about 800m and just a ghostly shape at that. Anyway she was 90 degrees to me going slow and down she goes.

I have been attacking and trailing a convoy for 3 days now in clouded weather with fog, light rain, medium waves etc. Three runs made, 1 --> Two pyro's, 2 --> Two large cargo's, 3 --> The large tanker in the middle!

Two DD's, on up front, one at the side. I am, ofcourse hehe, on the other side. One pyro on fire since the first run. She is my light in the night. Fog is my daytime friend... shhhh... limited sight, no planes. Perfect.

Shhh... they might hear me, this is getting surgical

U-123 out of WHaven - Jan 1940, patrol 3. East of BF27. Still alive.

[Captain Nemo]

Originally Posted by Corsair

The problem of weather change comes also from the SH3 function that resets the "weather change counter" to zero every time you make a save.

Does the weather counter speed up with TC?

Nemo

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by Captain Nemo

Does the weather counter speed up with TC?

Nemo

Nope, the weather checks are done according to the game time from what I understand. And weather check doesn't mean weather change, there is a probability that after check weather stays the same.
Anyway I am a SH3 Weather user and I like it. Haven't tried the last version yet, just installed it. (Available in the mods workshop forum)

[Lanzfeld]

Do we know about how long the interval is that the game checks to see if it will do a weather change?

So we are talking realtime checks here right? TC will not have an effect? I have to actually sit at the computer X amount of time for a change?

[Gezoes]

I read somewhere that there is a random chance of the weather changing every six hours ingame time. Not sure what TC does to that though.

[Mooncatt]

say for example you were doing a mission in 1x tc, would you see the weather change gradually or would it just instantly change or because your in 1x tc would the weather even change at all??