Overcast, grey sky, but no rain.

[evrik 841]

Hello all, I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I am looking for some help / confirmation regarding the weather system.

 

At the moment I am trying to create a mission on a dedicated server, with JIP enabled, set on the Winter Chernarus map. I have a snow script which, when combined with fog, provides a really good atmosphere when the sky is grey and set to overcast.

 

Unfortunately, setting the weather to overcast inevitably leads to it raining during the mission. I need to stop this from happening. I have attempted to use the sliders in the mission - manually setting rain to 0 - but it doesn't work if the overcast slider is set to anything over 50%. Likewise I have tried using setRain, setOvercast and forceWeatherChange on the server:

 

0 setOvercast 1; 0 setRain 0; forceWeatherChange; 999999 setRain 0;

 

This still does not appear to work. Has anyone found a way of reliably preventing rain on a dedicated multiplayer server if Overcast is set high? Do the setOvercast, setRain, and forceWeatherChange commands actually work?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[Neviothr 102]

Untested:

while {true} do {
	if (rain > 0) then
	{
		0 setRain 0;
		forceWeatherChange;
	};
        sleep 1;
};

Edited November 15, 2016 by Neviothr

[ineptaphid 6413]

Are you using ACE or TPW? They will affect rain.

[evrik 841]

@Neviothr: Thanks, I'll test that. I'd rather not have a constantly looped script to reset the weather every second though. However, if that works, then it may be the only option.

 

@ineptaphid: We are using ACE3 and ALIVE on the mission, but not the ACE3 or ALIVE weather modules as we didn't want to overwrite the vanilla system.

[Neviothr 102]

I've tested the above solution and it seems to be working fine (note that I optimized it a bit by removing the _rain variable).

Also, the next could also be used:

while {true} do
{
	waitUntil {rain > 0};
	0 setRain 0;
	forceWeatherChange;
};

Although I've noticed that it caused some stuttering for me.

[evrik 841]

I think that is a result of it constantly enforcing an instant weather change rather than the standard decay / change over time. Hmm.

[Neviothr 102]

That's how it works, and there's really not point to changing it since rain doesn't go from 1-100, the script detects if it's above 0 (0.1 or more), and immediately changes it back to 0.

[killzone_kid 1326]

0 setOvercast 1; 0 setRain 0; forceWeatherChange; 999999 setRain 0;

 

This still does not appear to work.

This should work

[Persian MO 81]

 

 

We are using ACE3 and ALIVE on the mission, but not the ACE3 or ALIVE weather modules as we didn't want to overwrite the vanilla system.

About ace 3 weather, i think it changing weather even if you not use ace weather module.

Use Ace 3 weather module and set for not changing weather if there is a option for it.

[evrik 841]

@killzone_kid: Can anyone confirm that it does actually work? It should work, but doesn't seem to unfortunately. If someone can confirm that they have it working on a dedicated server - and how they did it - it would be a great help. I appreciate that it could be ALIVE or ACE3 causing a conflict, but it would be great to know that the command actually did work.

 

@Persian MO: That is something we can try if there is a setting. As this is for a Public Server, we can't really get rid of ACE3 or ALIVE as both are essential, so it would be a real shame if either of them are breaking the command. But as I said above, it would be great to know for certain that

 

0 setOvercast 1; 0 setRain 0; forceWeatherChange; 999999 setRain 0;

 

does actually work.

[killzone_kid 1326]

Works for me, but to be sure try it yourself in vanilla

[evrik 841]

Thanks. That's good to know. Chances are it is either ALIVE or ACE3 messing things up then. That's an issue as we kinda need them for the Public mission. I appreciate the help.

[ineptaphid 6413]

As said above-ACE still affects the weather even without modules. I'm not exactly sure how it works-i just know when I use MCC or to try and start it raining during a mission, it will not work if ACE is running. It will rain for about 3 seconds then suddenly stop. I would ask on the ACE thread how to solve your issue.

[evrik 841]

Yep, that works. It was the ACE3 module. All that was needed was to add the ACE3 Weather module and then disable it. Thanks for the help!