Does it ever rain?

[lerxst2112]

Well, the values set when the zone is loaded determine when the first check is. The second set determine when the next check is. You'd need to find a balance for those that does what you're looking for. If you set them all to very low values then the changes will be frequent. The values are in milliseconds, so if you set them to something between 300000 and 600000 it would change every 5-10 minutes.

You can also change the weather from a script if that is easier.

[Sourdough35]

Is there a place I can read up on how to set up scripts? I have no idea what I'm doing.

[louis1016]

heres a decent weather setup for a private server-

in zone.cpp

line 818 should read:

Weather_Timer = new Timer((MakeRandomInt(1, 2700000)));

then change lines 1289-1292 to

			if(zone->zone_weather != zone->weather_type)
				weatherTime = (MakeRandomInt(1, 2700000));
			else
				weatherTime = (MakeRandomInt(1, 2700000));

i find this to be much better then using perl scripts, the only problem is the code does not seem to generate random weather intensity, which you can do quite easily in perl scripts (some of the high intensity rain/snow settings are quite awesome, the default rain/snow intensity seen in eqemu is really low and crappy compared to what is capable)

I noticed however, on line 2018,

if(zone_weather>0)
		outapp->pBuffer[4] = 0x10+MakeRandomInt(0, 9); // This number changes in the packets, intensity?

if this is correct, and this is the random intensity, then the values must be changed to 0, 60 rather then 0, 9. This would mean that the random intensity can only be between 0 and 9, which are very low. Changing the value higher will produce much different rain/snow storms. I have yet to test this out but I will get to it sometime