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- The Lone Wolf Development Team
Weather generation
- Thread starter Patrakis
- Start date
Weather generation is not planned for the first release. That's a feature that will be of value to a subset of GMs, and our initial focus is on features that virtually every GM will want to leverage. Once we get those features into place, we'll then look at more specialized features like weather generation.
True, and while a random weather generator is cool. I prefer the find a real place and use it's weather. Since that way you don't get lows in the 50s one day and highers in the 90s the next with no connection between them.While that's an option, one of the points of RW is to make as many GM tasks as possible as efficient as possible by pulling them into one program.
But yeah, wouldn't be a bad thing.
Hehe... I lived in Texas for 18 years and never had that happen. Hmmm... although, I guess you are right. If you got a nice storm coming in with the rain and the cloud cover you could drop the temperature by a significant degree. 
Rain was sometimes the best thing to ever happen in Texas and sometimes just made it disgustingly muggy.
Houston was miserable for humidity.
Hmmm... although, I guess you are right. If you got a nice storm coming in with the rain and the cloud cover you could drop the temperature by a significant degree. Rain was sometimes the best thing to ever happen in Texas and sometimes just made it disgustingly muggy.Houston was miserable for humidity.
I want to be able to customize the weather generation a bit (if possible). I'm running a post-apocalyptic game where there are occasional acid rain storms, sandstorms or even radiation storms. I'm hoping that if (when) they add in a weather generation module, they allow us the ability to tinker with it a bit, to reflect any special weather conditions of our campaign.
I concur, that was definitely the best out there. The reliance on their own servers really is a pain in the backside as they're no longer in business, although there is a workaround.
Just to put something concrete out as a starting point for discussion, I'd love to see the following capabilities, many of which are at the core of Weather Master:
* Ability to configure everything below for multiple locations, preferably specified by longitude and lattitude.
* Calculate sunrise and sunset (formulas are avail on Wikipedia)
* Integrate with the calendars already in RW.
* Calculate the movement of moons. Weather Master did 3, but only showed 2 on the calendar.
* Ability to compute everything for a date range and store (past and future) in the calendar database. In my calendar, I had computed hundreds of years as I'd had intentions of doing stuff on moon conjunctions (when two or three are at a certain phase together).
Bonus items
* Search for the aforementioned conjunctions.
* Eclipses (That's some really serious math, I'm not really expecting it, but maybe an approximation?)
* Allow us to enter descriptions/effects of moons in each of 8 phases and allow the players to click on a moon somewhere to see what it's like on any day from start of campaign to present.
I think that's it for now.
Gary
In the Kickstarter, they told us about the calendar system and I nearly tripped over my tongue. Many different calendars that you can tie to a master calendar so that you can easily convert back and forth.
Ladyofdragons
Well-known member
Agreed, that was a nifty app back in the day. I occasionally look to see if there have been any replacements for it, but haven't looked recently.
You can still get it and use it. Has to be on XP and you have to manipulate a file/registry key to fool it into thinking it's in the first 30 days since it was built to need to check in with a server. A bit of Google work should provide all the answers.
Ladyofdragons
Well-known member
Yup, found it on wayback so I can use it for at least 30 days in demo mode, also found a forum post with some discussion that the original developer may be thinking about a new version for ipad, but nothing concrete on that for the past year. It does work on Win7, by the way, as long as you run both the install and the program as admin.
I'd love to see a good stable replacement for it though, that can automatically push the information into the calendar in Realm Works, but includes a good realistic weather generation algorithm. Would make a good add-on once the core features are set.
Oh, hmmm. I do believe I'll have to retry that.
I didn't have too much invested in the version I had in XP Mode on my Win7 so recreating it wouldn't be a hard thing. Thanks!
Did you find the batch file or tip to make one that cleared the key to bypass the 30 day thing?