Snowstorm in specific area

[Airwaves Man]

Hey guys,

Im trying to create a special weather behavoir for an specific area. I want a snowstorm at a defined position. For example: Stary and a 500m radius. So everybody who entered that area  see snow and fog. Of course when the player leaves that area the weather settings should changed back to normal.

Ive tried to get the area defined by the mission.sqm. That works but only for the activation and the whole map starts to snow. How can I set up only one area with snow? There is no need that the area starts snowing when the players enters the area, it can snow the whole time there.

 

[KELLEY]

Okay, just an idea. I seem to remember weather being stuck to players?A glitch. Just use area for trigger. Attach to player instead of specific area.

[Airwaves Man]

Thx for your reply mate, Im not really sure what you mean. I can use a trigger that says when a player enter the area it starts to rain by useing setRain 1 but I cant do it with setSnow 1 because it is an extra addon and arma does not understand the command? Can you give me a hint or example what you mean?

[juandayz]

43 minutes ago, A Man said:

Thx for your reply mate, Im not really sure what you mean. I can use a trigger that says when a player enter the area it starts to rain by useing setRain 1 but I cant do it with setSnow 1 because it is an extra addon and arma does not understand the command? Can you give me a hint or example what you mean?

try it:

storm.sqf

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_storm = false;

stormpos = [[6325.6772,7807.7412,0]];

radius = 500;

{

if ((player distance _x) < radius) then {

_storm = true;

};

} foreach stormpos;

if (_storm) then {

storm code here

};

 

 

[Airwaves Man]

That does not work right. It seems that the script does not check the player is in the area

[juandayz]

2 hours ago, A Man said:

That does not work right. It seems that the script does not check the player is in the area

do you have the sqf , the one you execute trough mission.sqm?

[Airwaves Man]

Yeah mate, Ive tested two things. The first i tried to get the rain. It works well. When you enter the area it rains, when you leave the weather changed to no rain and another overcast. My second try was the to execute the file on expActiv when a player enters the area. Of course it was just a test and it worked very well. But I was not able to limit the storm to the area the players entered before.

Ive exuted your sqf now from my sqm, I did it from the init before. This time it works on expActiv but for the whole map.

Currently I use this.

 

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_storm = false;

stormpos = [[9253, 17574,0]];

radius = 400;

{

if ((player distance _x) < radius) then {

_storm = true;

};

} foreach stormpos;

if (_storm) then {


setviewdistance 900;
bis_fog = 0.8;
 
setviewdistance 900;
5 setovercast 0.9;
5 setrain 1;
5 setfog bis_fog;


};

 

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		class Item7
		{
			position[]={9253,0,17574};
			activationBy="WEST";
			repeating=1;
			interruptable=1;
			age="UNKNOWN";
			name="snow";
			expCond="(player distance snow) < 400;";
			expActiv=execVM "scripts\snow\snow.sqf";
			//expDesactiv="3 setOvercast 0.05; 3 setRain 0;";
			class Effects
			{
			};
		};

 

 

[juandayz]

@A Man 

whats about change it in your mission.sqm

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class Item7
        {
            position[]={9253,0,17574};
            a=400;
            b=400;
            activationBy="WEST";
            repeating=1;
            interruptable=1;
            age="UNKNOWN";
            name="snow";
            expCond="(vehicle player) in thislist;";
            expActiv="snow = [] execVM ""scripts\snow\snow.sqf"";";
            expDesactiv="terminate snow;3 setOvercast 0.05; 3 setRain 0;";
            class Effects
            {
            };
        };       

any way i was thinking u are using a player and a location as a trigger to start the storm... but you dont define wheres the storm must be.

[Airwaves Man]

@juandayz

Ive tried a lot things now. Thx for your help. It wont work the way I want. Setting rain and viewdistance worked as expected. I tried both version from you. I didnt keep in mind that the weather when I changed it for a single player, it is client side for each player, so the other players wil not see the change. After thiking a lot about I got a better idea. So thanks again mate.