*simsample kisses kiwi* :lovestruc

I honestly feel like a noob, considering this an entire discussion about the topic and I'm probably asking a real simple question:

There are 5 different types of weather: Sunny, Slightly Cloudy, Over Cast... etc. etc.
How does the weather change because from my experience playing I haven't seen change in weather at all unless its a difference of like the weather at 3am vs. 6pm.

Which world are you talking about? Weather usually changes every 8 hours, but the default inis are very plain. You'll find more variety in a world like Bridgeport.

IN any, Ive played them all extensively except Starlight, I dont seem to have weather.

I just am asking this because I think it is key to help me understand how this works and how to apply it.

I think you are probably describing the bug where clouds do not show sometimes. This occurs in Sims 3 and in CAW, in both custom and EA worlds and seems to be a game bug.

If you play the world fot a while, then save, exit to main menu and reload, the clouds will usually show up. If not, exiting the game, deleting caches, reloading and repeating the save>exit>reload usually works. For CAW, usually a reboot of the program will fix this.

Also, I'm trying to import the Bridgeport .ini files and color ramps into my world, but I cant seem to find the files they are supposed to replace, in S3PE, all I'm getting ins the /IMGs and such

Also, I'm sorry if I'm a noob, but I'm a bit new to this soo...

They won't replace any files in your custom world, unless you already imported some sea/sky files in previously, and have not saved the world in CAW.

Oh, so I just place them in there and thats it?

What about the .ini's?

Yes, just import them to your CAW world file using S3Pe, and save in S3Pe. Don't save in CAW though or else the ini files will be deleted and you'll need to reimport them.

I Don't know if it was mentioned before but is there a way to keep the .ini files while saving the world? Also, if so where would you place them.

OK, I imported the .dds files and opened my world, and although I got the effect of Bridgeport Weather The water became completely see-through.

Only if you rename them and place them in a special folder. Details here:
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=466283

OH, whoops, I did this before you replied:

OK so I imported the .ini files into the .world file itself and I saved and closed CAW, and reopened it, and the same effects were there that were there when I saved it

So it's all working? Great, well done!

Just a question. Does a 0.0 probability mean it wil NEVER occur or sometimes? and for the.ini files and the ramps, if I don't need one, can I remove it altogether?

Hey First I want to thank you guys for all the amazing info you posted here it's very helpful. However I still don't understand quite a lot ^^

So this is my first attempt to change the weather for my world. I wanted to create a very sunny and bright environment so the first thing I did was to change the SunlightScale to a higher value. This caused the objects to be brighter which looks quite natural on the smaller objects. Unfortunately the distant terrain looks completely ridiculous:



Is there any way around this or should I edit some other values to get the effect without having glowing distant terrain?

As far as I've read, the glow has to do with a number called bloom. I believe it's mentioned in the. First few pages but I don't understand it too well, I left it as is. I'd wait for sims ample and not Listen to me anyway

Nope, I didn't touch bloom, just the [Lighting] SunlightScale . The regular objects aren't glowing, just the distant terrain. It seems the highest value you can set it to is 2,5 until it starts looking really odd.

From my observations it seems that it appears very seldom, as the probability figure seems to be a weighting rather than an actual probability. However, I need to do more testing to actually say for sure. The EA vacation worlds have only two weather types, and for France one of those is 1.0 and one is 0.0. So I'm assuming that they wouldn't have bothered doing the second weather type at all if it wasn't going to at least show up some of the time. But, you never know with EA...

alice4artz- I think you're going to have to reduce the Sunlightscale to get rid of that. The daytime bloom only seems to affect the bloom on the sun/sky, and not so much on objects, from what I've seen. Maybe the distant terrain has a high specularity? Are you not noticing that objects like tables and kitchen surfaces are glowing with that setting also? There are some figures called 'BloomRampIntensity' and 'BloomRampThreshold' that might be worth looking at, I haven't experimented with those yet. Maybe those bloom settings were what Riptide was referring to?

SO if I removed it it would use the defaults for custom?

Also: I was checking out my world, Sturgeon Bay, in EIG and whenever I zoomed out the opposite side would cover witha white screen. Any Ideas? I don't think its weather I think it has something to do with graphics.

Yes, any weather types not modded should use the defaults, but of course you may hardly ever see them depending upon your custom probabilities.

For the white screen, can you show a screenshot?

Ok so here's what happened: I was looking at Jericho (Beautiful World, btw ) an I noticed you included a map. So I thought it was a good idea to include a so-far map of my world to show how its coming along. Unfortunately, when I zoomed out This white screen covered my world:

In the picture, only half of my world is visible:



TO make the map I had to make 2 parts. Your world is big, how did you do it?

Also, for some reason after the new patch in CAW, the fog option sometimes stops working and so does the weather sliders.

My Jericho map was made in-game not in CAW, and was created from around 16 or so images all spliced together. You can see this if you look closely; the perspective of the buildings and objects looks odd as a result. You might be able to get a better shot in CAW by changing the LOD transition in camera settings, but in-game you have no way of getting rid of the fog.

The fog/weather options is a bug that occurs in-game and in CAW; the way to solve it is to restart CAW.

The thing is is occurs every time I use it. So if someone happened to zoom out in-game, would they see it? Because I want to make it as playable as possible.

When playing a world in-game, once you get the clouds working for that session, it sticks. The problem is getting the clouds to show in the first place! This glitch exists in the EA worlds too; for example Starlight Shores and Lunar Lakes have lovely clouds, but sometimes it's necessary to reload a save to have the clouds show.

In CAW, the problem seems to occur intermittently, but rebooting the program always seems to solve it.

Well not the clouds, would the giant white/black screen be visible?