[WIP] Dynamic Environment SH5

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by gap

What ClimateZones.tga are you basing on for your mod? I use ACSoft's zones map, because I find it bug free and fairly accurate (taking in consideration not only latitude, but also aerial and oceanic streams). Nevertheless, I've modifies its ClimateZones.cfg in oder to have one Tropical Climate area, for equatorial climate, and two Tropical_A areas (respectively Northern and Southern):

[Climate Zones]
DefaultClimateZone=0
Color00=PolarClimateNorthern
Color20=Polar_AClimateNorthern
Color40=TemperateClimateNorthern
Color60=Temperate_AClimateNorthern
Color80=Tropical_AClimateNorthern
Color100=TropicalClimateNorthern
Color120=Tropical_AClimateSouthern
Color140=Temperate_AClimateSouthern
Color160=TemperateClimateSouthern
Color180=Polar_AClimateSouthern
Color200=PolarClimateSouthern
 
[Climate Weather Types]
Color00=Weather_Polar.cfg
Color20=Weather_Polar_A.cfg
Color40=Weather_Temperate.cfg
Color60=Weather_Temperate_A.cfg
Color80=Weather_Tropical_A.cfg
Color100=Weather_Tropical.cfg
Color120=Weather_Tropical_A.cfg
Color140=Weather_Temperate_A.cfg
Color160=Weather_Temperate.cfg
Color180=Weather_Polar_A.cfg
Color200=Weather_Polar.cfg
 
[Climate Environment Colors]
Color00=EnvColors_Polar.cfg
Color20=EnvColors_Polar_A.cfg
Color40=EnvColors_Temperate.cfg
Color60=EnvColors_Temperate_A.cfg
Color80=EnvColors_Tropical_A.cfg
Color100=EnvColors_Tropical.cfg
Color120=EnvColors_Tropical_A.cfg
Color140=EnvColors_Temperate_A.cfg
Color160=EnvColors_Temperate.cfg
Color180=EnvColors_Polar_A.cfg
Color200=EnvColors_Polar.cfg

given these conditions, the settings for Weather_Tropical.cfg could be:

[Season 0]
SeasonName=summer
MinWeatherChangeInterval=2    ; [minHours, maxHours], interval in which to trigger a random weather change
MaxWeatherChangeInterval=48    ; [minHours, maxHours], interval in which to trigger a random weather change
MinWindSpeed=1            ;
MaxWindSpeed=15            ;

(stock values for Min and Max weather change interval respectively 5 and 96 h).

As for Tropical_A areas, by checking more carefully the above mentioned ClimateZones.tga I noticed that they extend up and down to hot dry teamperate areas (like South Mediterranean, North Western Africa, Yucatan Peninsula and Gulf of Mexico, South Africa, Southern Australia, etc.). No way the climate of these regions can be considered equatorial, so your normal settings should apply to Weather_Tropical_A.cfg (higher variability during winter and intermediate seasons).
I hope I made myself clear.



That is probably correct... My bad, I didn't think about it. Maybe Stoianm should call his mod real zoo environment, in order to be able to use those pictures as reference...
Still, there are documentarists making crazy things, like filming sharks and hippos by staying inside cages, or with the sole protection of "armoured" wet suits, but indeed we don't know if this is the case.



I've observed several times lions as far as 2-3 meters (!) from my car. They didn't care at all about my presence. This happened inside or close to the boundaries of national parks and game reserves, where they are used to the presence of human beings. Though I am not sure how they would react seeing unprotected humans, but they would most probably attack.
Yes, there are occasional reports of lone, nomad lions, too old to hold their own pride and pushed by starvation to kill cattle and sometimes even persons, because they are easy prays. Once they get used to this kind of behaviour it is difficult to dissuade them from this diet, and normally they have to be shoot down. Nevertheless as I said before, these eveniences are really uncommons, and humans aren't normally considered as prays by them.
Quite surprisingly, in subeqautorial Africa the most dangerous animals are not predators, but big herbivores: the record of attacks against humans is held by far by hippos, followed by elephants and buffaloes. They are irritable animals, and they can easily injure or kill people, especially when they think that their offspring is endangered by them.

I used the same tgs from acsoft because is very stable... the climatezones.cfg i do not use.. will be the one from w_clear .... i will change that to have like a subtemperate zone but i need long test to be sure it is stable ... untill than i will not usw the Temperate_A ... only i will create the color file ... and i will add him later

i will use for tropical weather min 5 and max 48 and for sub tropical weather min 3 and max 12 ... will be a nice combination