Modify weather in MTW?

[Axalon]

Hi all,

I am just wondering here. Is it at all possible to modify the weather in MTW? If so, how? I downloaded an old weather editor from 2004-ish over at the Org-tool area but it does not seem to work at all. Or am I doing something horridly wrong here or is this just hardcoded? Is it only possible to alter the weather in VI (if possible at all)? So far, no matter what changes I made in the weather-file (it is located in the battle folder), regardless how extreme my values were it was not detected in the game. I even went so far to write-protect the file just to make sure that my values would stay put in there but nothing happened. And if I did not write-protect the file the values would just go back to default values again. Oh and for the record I have only tried this on MTW V.1.1.

Anybody out there that knows these things better than I do in this little issue?

- Cheers

[AmbrosiusAurelianus]

I only know that when DragonCrusader and I were making historical battles for MTW, he tried in vain for weeks to make a sandstorm. I do not believe it is possible to modify MTW's weather.

[Axalon]

Hi there,

You are the second person on the planet who have produced any kind of answer on my little inquiry here (the other one was on TotalWar.com). So a while back I came to the conclusion that all this is hard-coded since there is nothing that suggests otherwise. Thus weather in MTW is hard-coded. Sad but true. :hmmm:

- Cheers
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I did appreciate your reply just the same...

[AmbrosiusAurelianus]

You're welcome, Axalon! Incidentally, you do know that weather can be changed in historical battles don't you? Dragoncrusader and I wrote a guide at the org. (I'm the same AmbrosiusAurelianus who posts there.)

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=49980

The weather is changed in the bdf file at the WeatherSequenceId line. The number sets the weather for the battle: 0 clear 1 clear 2 rain 3 Heavy Snow 4 light snow and fog 5 light snow 6 light snow 7 light snow 8 light snow 9 mist. Adding any number above 9 simply results in snow.

I tried to look at the weather file in the battle folder, when attempting to make a sandstorm, but cannot make head nor tail of it - although there appear to be both sand and wind parameters. Altering the numbers seems to make no difference, and weather appears independent of terrain.

I only just visited this forum again today and saw your response, as I can finally play MTW again! Against all the odds it runs on my new laptop, along with Thief: The Dark Project, which I had also given up on ever playing again.

[Axalon]

Hello Ambrosius,

I did not know that actually. Thanks for the link to the guide! Even if this is great news, I have never bothered much with the “historical” battles section in the game because it never interested me that much – this of course is probably the big reason why I have missed out on this before. My “weather-quest” was mainly directed towards campaigns as you probably have gathered by now….

Anyway, useful and interesting info man. Have this golden rep-ring on me…

- Cheers

[AmbrosiusAurelianus]

Anyway, useful and interesting info man. Have this golden rep-ring on me…

- Cheers

Thanks for that! I was browing past threads on the weather after I posted, and it seems that the weather.txt is simply a debug file, perhaps even one left over from Shogun. That would explain why altering it doesn't seem to do very much.

The weather in the loc folder is just a set of descriptions for weather in game too. It looks like it's unlikely that weather can be changed in campaigns. Never mind!