How to turn off the blinding snow storms?

[stevehoos]

These are quite annoying, would be a blessing if some one could explain how to turn them off?

[recentiy03]

It might not be possible but fog and rain are also blinding.

[Liandro]

Rain is cool, but the snow storms... well, really it'd just be stupid to fight in a snow storm that bad.

[stevehoos]

Rain is cool, but the snow storms... well, really it'd just be stupid to fight in a snow storm that bad.

That is what I thought, most armies would not fight in 10 feet of visability, even in modern times with night vision and thermal scopes.

[Lugiahua]

it's annoying when AI was attacking, since you can't "wait" for the snow to stop.
funny thing is, the AI seems unaffected by the bad weather at all.

[RaduAlexandru]

it's annoying when AI was attacking, since you can't "wait" for the snow to stop.
funny thing is, the AI seems unaffected by the bad weather at all.

Which kind of adds to the challenge ... from this point of view I find the snow rain and fog very useful ...

[stevehoos]

I guess I am all for making the game harder, just not annoying.

[Moritol]

There should be a folder called... erm... something with weather in medieval/mods/SS 6.4/data .
Delete it and the weather effects should be vanilla again.

If you don't like night battles too, you can also delete the folder "globallighting". Nights are going to be more shiny.

[Kilgore Trout]

In weather.db in the data folder change the chance for both seasons and all climate ids.

<seasons>
<!-- Summer -->
<season id="summer">
<!-- Climate id's must match the climates specified in descr_climates.txt -->
<climates>
<climate id="mediterranean">
<patterns>
<pattern id="clear" chance="1.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="cloudy" chance="0.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="rain" chance="0.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="storm" chance="0.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="light fog" chance="0.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="heavy fog" chance="0.0"></pattern>
</patterns>
</climate>


or for winter, as you asked about blinding snowstorms


<climate id="alpine">
<patterns>
<pattern id="clear winter" chance="1.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="cloudy winter" chance="0.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="light fog winter" chance="0.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="heavy fog winter" chance="0.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="snow" chance="0.0"></pattern>
<pattern id="blizzard" chance="0.0"></pattern>
</patterns>
</climate>



Now it's clear every day in my games!

[Arkayne]

I actually like the blinding nature of the snowstorms; adds quite a bit of realism in my opinion. And as history goes, there have been some famous battles fought in blinding snowstorms, most by chance and some by design, e.g. Battle of Towton (War of the Roses), Battle of Narva (Great Northern War), Battle of Quebec City (1775), Eylau (Napoleonic Wars), Second Battle of Masurian Lakes (WWI), Sarikamas (Turkish Caucas Mts, WWI), Battle of the Bulge in part (WWII), Chosin Resevoir in part (Korean War) just to name a few. But I will agree, snowstorms in the game are pain, which adds to the fun as I sometimes blunder right into part of the enemy line I had no intention of engaging or miss an AI charge that catches me unprepared. Adds to the carnage!

[lampros69]

I actually like the blinding nature of the snowstorms; adds quite a bit of realism in my opinion. And as history goes, there have been some famous battles fought in blinding snowstorms, most by chance and some by design, e.g. Battle of Towton (War of the Roses), Battle of Narva (Great Northern War), Battle of Quebec City (1775), Eylau (Napoleonic Wars), Second Battle of Masurian Lakes (WWI), Sarikamas (Turkish Caucas Mts, WWI), Battle of the Bulge in part (WWII), Chosin Resevoir in part (Korean War) just to name a few. But I will agree, snowstorms in the game are pain, which adds to the fun as I sometimes blunder right into part of the enemy line I had no intention of engaging or miss an AI charge that catches me unprepared. Adds to the carnage!

I don't find the enhanced weather effects beneficial at all. I am usually a proponent of realism, but too much of it sometimes detract from gameplay. As such, this should've been an option, but not a permanent feature.

Anyways, I am glad I finally found a way to address it.

[Green Warrior]

Hey, bigdogbluesk, thanks so much for the info. That's really beneficial.

In a similar vein, can anyone tell me whether there is a simple way to make sure that the battlefields themselves do not include those insanely mountainous battlefields.

I don't mind varied terrain on the battlefield: hills, gullies, forests, ridges as well as flat grassland. But the battles that take place on mountainsides are just plain annoying to me.

Any help in eliminating those annoying mountainous battlefields will be greatly appreciated.

By the way, I'm playing SS 6.4.

Thanks.

[Geoffrey of Villehardouin]

I don't think it is possible but start a new thread if you want to find out, or check in the modding workshop.