Name: Dynamic Weather - Rain
Version: 1.2
Date: 04/03/2010
Category: Gameplay Effects and Changes
Requirements: Fallout 3 v1.7, Xepha's Dynamic Weather, Skindgrad24's Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow
Optional Requirements: Operation Anchorage (DLC)
Author: Xepha
Source: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10607



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Dynamic Weather - Rain
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Dynamic Weather - Rain adds two new weather types to the Dynamic Weather climate utilizing the rain meshes/textures and sound effects of Skingrad24's Enhanced Weather Rain mod.

I have made a point of basing Dynamic Weather Rain on Enhanced Weather Rain 1.5, as I believe there is a slight performance gain over using Enhanced Weather Rain 2.0. Or it could just be my 8800GTS starting to show it age... Dynamic Weather - Rain should, however, be compatible with both versions of Enhanced Weather.

Heavy Rain uses thunder and heavy rain sound effects and lightning effects against a heavily overcast and dark weather type. Heavy Rain has a 50 percent chance of appearing.

Light Rain uses light rain sound effects against a modified, unused weather type, found in the Fallout3.esm (similar to Wasteland East). Light Rain has a 60 percent chance of appearing.

If you enjoy my implementation of Rain in Dynamic weather, don't forget to pop over to Skingrad24's Enhanced Weather page at the nexus and drop a Kudos/Endorsemant or two !

Skingrad24's Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow @ the nexus: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6170




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***IMPORTANT INFO***
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Skingrad24's Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow MUST be installed and its ESM activated for Dynamic Weather - Rain to work ! Pick it up here:

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6170

At the very least, the following should be extracted from Enhanced Weather Rain:

Data\Meshes\Mieimod\Different Weathers\sky\Rain.nif
---( Data\Meshes\Mieimod\Different Weathers\sky\RainUP.nif (only if using EW 2.0) )---

Data\Sound\fx\mieimod\Different Weathers\ambient\thunder\amb_thunder_01.wav
Data\Sound\fx\mieimod\Different Weathers\ambient\thunder\amb_thunder_01m.wav
Data\Sound\fx\mieimod\Different Weathers\ambient\thunder\amb_thunder_02.wav
Data\Sound\fx\mieimod\Different Weathers\ambient\thunder\amb_thunder_02m.wav
Data\Sound\fx\mieimod\Different Weathers\ambient\thunder\amb_thunder_03.wav
Data\Sound\fx\mieimod\Different Weathers\ambient\thunder\amb_thunder_03m.wav

Data\Textures\Mieimod\Different Weather\Rain.dds
---( Data\Textures\Mieimod\Different Weather\Rain2.dds (only if using EW 2.0) )---


Please note that Skingrad24's "Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow in Fallout.esp" is NOT required and should NOT be used if you want to utilize Dynamic Weather's Rain weather types and climate. Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow.esm IS required and should be loaded before Xepha's Dynamic Weather.esm.

I won't not be supporting Skingrad24's other Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow addons/plugins (such as Radioactive Rain) as I don't use them myself - questions regarding these should be directed to Skingrad himself.

Also, I don't have any plans to implement snow weathertypes at this time.



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Install/Load Order:
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The Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain archive contains 4 esps, choose ONLY ONE to extract and place in your load order as outlined below.



* Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain.esp (Darker Nights, without Operation Anchorage DLC)

Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow.esm (***Required ***)
Xepha's Dynamic Weather.esm (***Required ***)
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other mods/esp's
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Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Main.esp (***Required ***)
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other Dynamic Weather DLC esps if required
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Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain.esp



* Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain (NEE).esp (Brighter Nights (Night Eye Edition), without Operation Anchorage DLC)

Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow.esm (***Required ***)
Xepha's Dynamic Weather.esm (***Required ***)
...
other mods/esp's
...
Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Main.esp (***Required ***)
...
other Dynamic Weather DLC esps if required
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Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Night Eye Edition.esp
Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain (NEE).esp



* Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain (OA).esp (Darker Nights, with Operation Anchorage DLC)

Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow.esm (***Required ***)
Xepha's Dynamic Weather.esm (***Required ***)
...
other mods/esp's
...
Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Main.esp (***Required ***)
Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Anchorage.esp (Requires Operation Anchorage DLC)
...
other Dynamic Weather DLC esps if required
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Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain (OA).esp (Requires Operation Anchorage DLC)



* Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain (OA + NEE).esp (Brighter Nights (Night Eye Edition), with Operation Anchorage DLC)

Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow.esm (***Required ***)
Xepha's Dynamic Weather.esm (***Required ***)
...
other mods/esp's
...
Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Main.esp (***Required ***)
Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Anchorage.esp (Requires Operation Anchorage DLC)
...
other Dynamic Weather DLC esps if required
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Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Night Eye Edition (Anchorage).esp (Requires Operation Anchorage DLC)
Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain (OA + NEE).esp (Requires Operation Anchorage DLC)



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Contact:
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Xepha @ http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/
Xepha537 @ http://www.fallout3nexus.com



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Credits:
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Special thanks and Kudos to Skingrad24 for his Enhanced Weather Rain mod and for being kind enough in providing his Modders Readme.txt whose information made Dynamic Weather - Rain possible.

Thanks to TheOutbreak/Yossarian22, whose work forms a foundation for this mod.



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Licensing/Legal:
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You can do whatever you want with this mod but all I ask in return is that
you give me credit if you distribute any part of this mod. I would also like
to know what mods are including my work.

Wewt! Good to see it's here, and congratulations on the release.

Stupid question though: Do I need to update my current (v1.2) Dynamic Weather, or can I just download the DW - Rain.esp and get going?

Yeah, you should be able to just get going with whichever DW - Rain.esp you need. (I did test that didn't I? - Yes you did, Xepha )

If it doesn't work, I might need to upload my current esm (which has some minor modifications since 1.2) - should be alright though - fingers crossed.

:)

This looks awesome. Since Skingrad24' Enhanced Weather is compatible with Fellout I assume this is as well?

Now I have mixed up nights.

Sometimes there is the very bright vanilla night and sometimes there is the total darkness of darker nights.

Example: Outside of Megaton there is the very bright night. When I enter Megaton, everything is dark. There are also times when Megaton has vanilla nights.