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Revision as of 12:16, 25 August 2019

Tools and workflow

To create good, deliberate dynamic weather systems, you absolutely need the following:

  • A good zip manipulation tool — anything that lets you seamlessly browse, extract, and add to the file structure of a zip file.
  • Notepad++ or a similarly competent text editor. No, not notepad.
  • A conversion tool for angles and distances (Windows 10's built-in calculator does this well enough).
  • Patience.
  • Patience.
  • Patience.

You need these because the basic flow of weather creation is one of:

  • Creating a dummy mission where you place trigger zones as a first approximation of the pressure fronts.
  • Extracting the mission Lua file from the dummy .miz.
  • Copying the trigger zone coordinates (and possibly sizes) to a weather Lua file.
  • Optionally, for a bit more precision, editing the mission file and re-inserting it into the .miz.
  • Load the weather pattern and change pressure levels to achieve the desired result.
  • Preview, hate actual result.
  • Start over.

Preparation

Units and general considerations

Creating a weather parameter file

Manipulating pressure fronts

Pressure front parameters

Shape

Ellipticity

Rotation

Specific weather patterns

Cloud fronts

Rain and snow

Low winds

Long winds