totalwar/battle/weather.txt

[Khan7]

Well, I found the file which I believe controls all of the effects of weather.. it is HUGE so it's gonna be a royal pain to do much with it.. but it's certainly doable, so if someone wants to check this out by all means do so it would be a benefit to the community.. but given the large amount of editing you'd have to do and the unreliability of what weather you're going to get in a battle, testing and gathering info is going to be somewhat tedious. An editing-assistance program for this file would be VERY nice.

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Khan7

[Whitey]

I remember 'turning off' the rain once (It never rained...ever) but I didn't try in in multiplayer - assuming people want to play in certain weather conditionsthey can, but I'd imagine both players would need the same weather file.

oh and btw - Muskets actually DO fire in light rain now (a pleasent surprise to me http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif)

[This message has been edited by Whitey (edited 08-26-2001).]

[Catiline]

What effects are you proposing need to be changed Khan?

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[Khan7]

I dunno.. it just would be good to know the workings of the file if one ever wanted to change something :-)

For instance, make Civil War small arms work better in rain and snow.

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Khan7

[Kraellin]

Rob, one of the old mod guys in here, played with the weather file quite a bit when he was still around. check the forum archives for his stuff about this. and yes, all players do have to have the same file or the game crashes.

K.


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[celtiberoijontychi]

Well modified weather files would allow for a custom "winter campaign" or a "Desert War" with no rain.

[Khan7]

From what I can tell it would seem a rather easy task to edit the weather cycles that show up in a season and the probabilities involved, and even somewhat easy to modify the weather cycles themselves, but it appears to be quite a task to modify the effects of weather.

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Khan7

[Magyar Khan]

is it me or does it really rains more on totomi now? if so, another disadvantage for the horses/attackers

[Khan7]

Probly just you, but can't be sure. All I can say is that I saw nothing in the file having to do with provinces, but this doesn't enitirely rule out the existence of some province-specificity.

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Khan7