setovercast broken ?

hi,

seems "setovercast" is broken since last Patch. Someone can confirm ?

i tried "

5 setovercast 1

" in a Trigger but nothing happen :confused: same with Rain.

thx in advance

Been broken since the beginning of alpha I think. Same goes for rain.

setovercast seems to eventually work. In a WIP mission, I have random weather - setovercast doesn't seem to work at the very beginning of the mission, but the subsequent setovercast 30 minutes later seems to work.

I've noticed that with setOvercast to get it to work in the beginning of the mission you need to set Overcast in the editor to Manual, sometimes after you run setOverCast you need to execute SimulWeatherSync as well to make sure the changes apply. It's a weird system :\

I noticed SimulWeatherSync, but wasn't sure what it's actual purpose was.

I read somewhere that setOvercast's minimum time effect parameter is now 30 minutes. (Which if true is going to kind of suck.)

As DMarkwick stated there is a required passing of time for setOvercast for the weather system to kick in. I got around this by adjusting the time after calling setOvercast. Its a bit of a hack, as it causes the game to pause, so its probably best to hide that with a cut screen or something..

/*
Set weather
Currently weathy is iffy in the alpha revise at beta.
*/
arjay_setWeather = 
{
private ["_preset", "_delay", "_now"];

_preset = _this select 0;
_delay = if(count _this > 1) then {_this select 1} else {30};

switch(_preset) do
{			
	case "STORMY":
		{
			_delay setOvercast 1;
			_delay setGusts 1;
			_delay setWindForce 1;
			_delay setWindStr 1;
			_delay setLightnings 1;				

			[] spawn {
				skipTime 2;					
				sleep 5; 					
				skipTime -2;					 					
				//call arjay_inspectEnvironment;
			};			
		};
	case "CLEAR":
		{
			_delay setOvercast 0;
			_delay setGusts 0;
			_delay setWindForce 0;
			_delay setWindStr 0;
			_delay setLightnings 0;

			[] spawn {
				skipTime 2;					
				sleep 5; 					
				skipTime -2;								
				//call arjay_inspectEnvironment;
			};		
		};
	case "OVERCAST":
		{			
			_delay setOvercast 0.5;
			_delay setGusts 0.5;
			_delay setWindForce 0.5;
			_delay setWindStr 0.5;
			_delay setLightnings 0.5;

			[] spawn {
				skipTime 2;					
				sleep 5; 					
				skipTime -2;							
				//call arjay_inspectEnvironment;
			};		
		};
};	
};

nice workaround :) thanks for the tip!