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Description/Details:
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Bored of the same old weather where ever you go in the Wasteland? Tired of bright as day "night"? Then this mod is for you!

Essentially a Wasteland Moods spin-off, combined with my previous Darker Nights, Dynamic Weather contains light and heavily modified versions of vanilla weather types, modified DLC weather types and a few creations of my own, all changing randomly as you wander the Capital Wasteland.

Dynamic Weather changes the weather throughout the Capital Wasteland approximately every 3 hours, semi-randomly, from a choice of 14 weather types (15, if using the optional Anchorage esp). Weather types are weighted so that clearer skies are more likely to appear than cloudy ones (60% and 30%, respectively). Fog/Sandstorm weather types have considerably less chance of appearing (10/20%).



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***IMPORTANT INFO***
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If you are updating from 1.0 , ALL Xepha's Dynamic Weather - xxx.esp's should be removed, as they are now obsolete/incompatible with 1.2



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Updates/History:
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Dynamic Weather 1.2, 18/02/2010

* Version 1.2 of Dynamic Weather has been considerably overhauled since Version 1.0. To allow easier development of future updates the main file has been split into an ESM and an ESP (containing overrides to be loaded late in your load order).

* All optional DLC Add-ons have been updated due to the ESMification of the main files.

* With 1.2 comes the release of The Pitt optional addon. The original Pitt weathertypes have been overhauled/discarded entirely as they (to me) leaved much to be desired. Out of this comes an entirely new weather type which can also appear in the Wasteland.

* Also with 1.2 comes Point Lookout optional addon. The original Point Lookout weathertypes have been overhauled/discarded entirely. The original Point Lookout fog had a very charicature quality about it which is in stark contrast to the Wasteland weathertypes and would have made for some very ugly transitions.

* Night Darkness has been given an overhaul so that now, how dark night gets depends on cloud cover - clear skies give the brightest nights, whilst overcast skies give the darkest nights.

* Night Eye Edition created to accomodate players that don't like to use full-on darker nights mods.

* Experimental Green Tint Remover for those people that are really sensitive to green. Consider this an Alpha release.



Dynamic Weather 1.1, (not released)

* Main file split and ESMified.
* Optional DLC add-ons updated.
* The Pitt add-on created.



Dynamic Weather 1.0, 12/31/2009

* Initial release



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DLC add-ons:
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* Operation Anchorage: Adds a new weather type to the Wasteland using the clouds seen in the simulator. Bailey's Crossroads has been given the Dynamic Weather treatment - the simulator remains untouched, however.

* Broken Steel: Applies Dynamic Weather to Broken Steel locations.

* The Pitt: Applies Dynamic Weather to The Pitt locations. Weather types appearing in the Pitt have been Image Space adjusted to keep in line with the polluted atmosphere.

* Point Lookout: Applies Dynamic Weather to Point Lookout locations. Weather types appearing in Point Lookout have been Image Space adjusted to keep in line with the swamp atmosphere.



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Miscellaneous Extra's
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* Night Eye Edition: An optional add-on for those that either don't like the darker nights, like vanilla nights or simply can't use a mod with darker nights because of lighting conditions at home. Comes in two flavours for compatibility with Operation Anchorage. Use only ONE esp depending on whether you have the Operation Anchorage DLC or not.

* Experimental Green Tint Remover: An experimental optional add-on for those people that are really sensitive to green. Consider this an Alpha release.

* Night Time Sneak Boost: A rather crude add-on than simply adds +25 to your Sneak Skill between the hours of darkness (21:00 - 05:00) whilst outside. This is entirely independant and so can be used without Dynamic Weather. There are better alternatives, but it's there if you want it.



More Info in the Readme!

-Xeph' B-)

In the third pic from the slideshow, the Moon looks deformed. Other than that, incredible.

Ok, I just tried the non green editition and I'm a tad disappointed. Everything seems a bit grey and dull, and the skies still have a slight green hue.

And the water in both versions is a bit wierd. Outside it looks great, but when swimming underwater it's just black and I can't see a thing lol. I just changed it to fellout's water using FO3edit.

Great mod tough, these are only minor niggles.

Thanks for the release and for the Night Eye Edition. I was just going to ask if it was possible to get a version w/o darker nights but you preemptied that.

Cool.

At the minute, the brightest it gets is maybe just a bit darker than the brightest vanilla FO3 nights, but any feedback on this would be great - I was never really sure just how "bright" people wanted this.

-Xeph' B)

OK, this is an odd complaint from me as I don't like darker nights, but I actually think the nights in the Night Eye edition are a bit too bright. Check out these comparison screens, especially the buildings in the background. It's more apparent ingame:

http://i47.tinypic.com/5zi6mh.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/sd2rds.jpg

Nice, thanks for sharing.

So I assume to use with Enhanced Rain/Snow I should load these esps after it? (sorry have yet to mod the weather in my install so little experience with it).

Looking forward to giving it a go.


Cheers
-kwm

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Description/Details:
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Bored of the same old weather where ever you go in the Wasteland? Tired of bright as day "night"? Then this mod is for you!

Essentially a Wasteland Moods spin-off, combined with my previous Darker Nights, Dynamic Weather contains light and heavily modified versions of vanilla weather types, modified DLC weather types and a few creations of my own, all changing randomly as you wander the Capital Wasteland.

Dynamic Weather changes the weather throughout the Capital Wasteland approximately every 3 hours, semi-randomly, from a choice of over a dozen weather types (more if you use some of the optional add-ons).

Since the Wasteland is essentially a desert, weather types are weighted so that clearer skies are more likely to appear than cloudy ones. Fog/Sandstorm/Rain weather types have less chance of appearing.



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***IMPORTANT INFO***
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LOAD ORDER: To avoid conflicts with other mods (even if you don't think there will be any), it is important that you adjust your load order like so:

Load Xepha's Dynamic Weather.esm as your *last* esm.
Load all other Xepha's Dynamic Weather - xxx.esp's very late/last in your load order.
For further advice on load order, read the appropriate readme contained within the downloaded .zip file.

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 then follow the install instructions in Dynamic Weather - Rain.zip

If you are updating from 1.0 , ALL Xepha's Dynamic Weather - xxx.esp's should be removed, as they are now obsolete/incompatible with 1.3



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Updates/History:
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Dynamic Weather 1.3, 28/05/2010

* Dynamic Weather - Main, Dynamic Weather - Rain, Dynamic Weather - Night Eye Edition and the Climate OverRider have all been updated. Details are outlined below.

* The Sandstorm weather type now includes a dust particle effect which follows the player around, simulating a sandstorm, as well being updated for a more "sandy" feel.

* Two new Rain based weather types have been added. Heavy Rain Only is based on the Heavy Rain weather type but doesn't have any lightning/thunder sounds/effects. Lightning Storm, built from the ground up, features the lightning sounds/effects but no Rain.

* Climate/Weather chance re-evaluated (Rain weather types in particular). Weather Volatility adjusted (weather types now change every 3 hours).

* Climate Overrider updated to reflect changes/additions.

* Various nips and tucks to other weather types and some behind the scenes tidying up.

I just wish the nights were darker. Not drastically and I do see how cloud cover makes it darker - it just seems that very bright out at night yet then dreary at times during the day.

May I ask if you are using the Night-Eye Edition (NEE)? Mm, because the nights in my game are so dark that I cannot see without night vision goggles, or playing in pitch darkness, too. *hisses at the sun*

You aren't using the Dynamic Weather - Night Eye Edition are you? That would make the the nights brighter. I use the same night .esp as you (Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Rain (OA).esp) and it isn't bright at all for me (even with the moon out). Though I didn't get to test the new update with it being night yet to see if that changed.

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I am not sure if it is exclusive to Enhanced Weather 2 or not, but the "Enhanced Weather - Weather Sounds in Interiors.esp" seems to work perfectly with your mod
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