thunder/lightning

[nichevo 2]

Greetings all.

I'm making a mission which features stormy weather. I'd like thunder and lightning, but I find that I can't get this to happen reliably.

I do remember seeing plenty of thunder and lightning in the early rounds of testing, but about half-an-hour of editing later all I was getting is heavy rain. As far as I can remember I hadn't changed much weather-wise during that time.

Searching for more information about lightning in ArmA doesn't turn up much. I've tried messing around with the in-editor weather/forecast controls, as well as commands like setOvercast and setRain. However I can't seem to bring back the thunder and lightning.

Does anyone know how to make an electrical storm reliably, that is, every single time you play the mission? Preferably I would like the thunder and lightning to be happening right at the start of the mission.

P.S. I like the rainbow effect that's in ArmA. It's a cute touch.

[satexas69 0]

Get NIM Weather 1.7b ("b" is "fixed")

It's EXACTLY what you want, but an addon. It will "guarantee" anything you want, works in MP and isn't server-taxing. Many think it's one of the "greatest addons ever"

You can find a copy of it here on my Dedi-Server page:

http://www.satexas.com/myaddons.html

[nichevo 2]

Thanks for the info.

After playing around a bit more with the game's default weather, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to guarantee thunder/lightning. I might need to resort to an addon.

I did notice that thunder/lightning is more common when newly firing up ArmA. It also seems more common if you keep forcing setOvercast and setRain commands. Though neither of these is anything near certain, just a couple of weak "trends" I noticed.

[misinformed 0]

0 setovercast 1; 0 setrain 1

Thats whats gets me plenty of lightning.