Overcast weather without rain/thunder?

[Sosna 0]

(Scripting noob here)

so far I tried:

0 setOvercast 1.0; 0 setRain 0.00;

overcast works but rain starts up within a min or two.

then I tried:

0 setOvercast 1.0; 3600 setRain 0.00;

it seems to keep the rain away (at least for the next hour) but thunder occurs, which I don't want.

Any solution?

[roguetrooper 2]

When you want a heavily clouded sky without thunder and rain, you should use

0 setovercast 0.69;

[Sosna 0]

Thanks, yes I've used this, but the sky is still very light.

Cloud cover should not be linked to rain/thunder, especially when the heaviest overcast is still very light compared to realistic ranges... o well.

[roguetrooper 2]

This trigger turned out to be useful to suppress rain. It deactivates rain as soon at it is about to start:

multiple activation
condition: rain > 0
on activation: [b]1[/b] setrain 0;

It seems as if 0 setrain 0 has no effect, but changing to zero rain within one second seems to work.

Nevertheless there will be thunder (which is not as annoying as a permanent rain sound).

Edit: Mkay. It is not possible to deactivate rain. At least in multiplayer it can not be prevented. Despite of the trigger rain > 0.

Either the command is bugged or they don't want rain to be influenced by the mapper/player :mad:

Edited May 7, 2011 by RogueTrooper

[metalcraze 290]

But is it possible to make the thunder appear much more often?

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Don't think so. Don't hope so either :p

Sure you can deactivate rain, also in multiplayer. You just have to do it also on the clients. Not sure if you can deactivate thunder, other than having overcast < 0.9 or so. Rain won't kick in < 0.7 (not =<), but it will be *initialized* to whatever the value you give it, then the engine takes over. For full control over rain, you need to *initialize* it several times per second.

I wish there was a delay of a few seconds before the engine kicked in.

[Freebie 10]

This worked for me, I put this in the weather module...

0 setOvercast 1; 100000 setRain 0.1;

Plenty of low overhanging cloud grey cloud with no rain.

Edited May 30, 2011 by Freebie

[celery 8]

0 setOvercast 0.8;0=[] spawn {while {true} do {1 setRain 0;sleep 1}}

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Correct, but sleep 1 will only work well when preventing rain. It will be too slow when trying to force a decent amount of rain. Even 0.3 will produce a pulsating effect on visibility range, but 0.2 works well. This is in Domination (own edit) so I don't know if there is too much going on, meaning that sleep 0.2 could be a longer measured time.