Weather

[KevinBagu]

How do I create random weather?

 

[Husky]

Could try something like:

Random Weather
    Events
        Time - Every 240.00 seconds of game time
    Conditions
    Actions
        Environment - Create at (Playable map area) the weather effect Ashenvale Rain (Heavy)

Then Create another like:

Random Weather
    Events
        Time - Elapsed game time is 420.00 seconds
    Conditions
    Actions
        Environment - Create at (Playable map area) the weather effect Northrend Blizzard

And just do lots of different variations...
Hope that helped,
-Husky

 

[Shadowy Fear]

Actually, no offense, but that method is terrible

There are no ways of removing that type of weather, so it would simply add on and you'd have rain AND snow >|. And then it might keep adding on, if there isn't a limit to it, and eventually it would crash the game.

I believe you need to either get a random number (one inside the free trigger code by acehart) or an interger array, then choose a random # from that, and then order the game to do a weather effect based on what number was chosen.

OR, you could do a large, random effect, as husky suggested, although you would need to turn it off for either method.

Btw, I'd suggest you not worry about weather effects until your map nears completion.

 

[Husky]

Oops, yeah sorry forgot to add like: Disable after 60 seconds .
Apoliges...

 

[KevinBagu]

I'd rather use shadowy's idea, no offense husky.

btw, i do infact, almost have a finished map that I just started today.. I might finish in 3 days(me and my bro alternate comp usage everyday.. >.<)

thanks guys

 

[adjl]

isolate the area you want to have weather into an array of rects, then make an array of weather effects of the same size. assign a weather effect to each rect using the type of weather that would be there.

For each (Integer A) from 0 to 10, do (Actions)
    Loop - Actions
        Environment - Create at Whatever[(Integer A)] the weather effect Northrend Snow (Heavy)
        Set weather[(Integer A)] = (Last created weather effect)

then have this trigger running...

weather
    Events
        Time - Every (Random real number between 0.00 and 60.00) seconds of game time
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set Random_Area = (Random integer number between 0 and 25)
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                (Random integer number between 0 and 10) Greater than or equal to 5
            Then - Actions
                Environment - Turn weather[Random_Area] On
            Else - Actions
                Environment - Turn weather[Random_Area] Off

 

[Darg]

do a search for a map I posted on this forum called "The Neverending Warcraft III Battle". It has random weather effects in there.

Note that I did toy around with it awhile, and found there to be some odd bugs I couldn't solve. Many of the weather effects refused to display at all, I only got some to work. So you can only probably work with the ones I put into that particular map.