@darkblades:
The game engine crashes because there are too many things to be rendered, a high poly count, not enough ram allocated for the game etc, it all adds up. Maps with large open areas are more prone to this happening, since they have greater far z-clip values allowing more to be rendered. The rain and probably fog also will affect the number of things rendered hence the engine crash. How am I not accepting that this is the problem?
You bring up shit about screenshots, which is unrelated. I highly doubt this plugin causes lag spikes and random FPS drops. The FPS drop occurs only after round start and when first spawning as mentioned above regarding the map light style. The only other time I could think of which would cause constant low FPS is when the storm has started and is very foggy.
Also where are all these errors you mentioned? I bet you don't have 1 error logged from this plugin.
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Originally Posted by Sal Grosso
Worked fine on my dedicated Vs server. Silvers a question: if "use_section" is "random" and Random storm selection is "7"; on each map change, the custom storm types will cycle?
Sorry my bad English.
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Yeah, each chapter the plugin will randomly select one of the custom storm types from the "7" listed. It may select the same custom settings since the plugin grabs a random number between 1 and 7 (or how ever many sections you have listed and set with the "count" key).
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Originally Posted by Sev
Regarding your idea of implementing z far clip as a cvar in a new update. I would reccomend it even if its less visually pleasing. At least the option will be there.
That and regarding Hard Rain and Passing. Both storm related campaigns. You said Hard Rain is not effected by this plugin. But does that mean Hard Rain and Passing can't be altered to remove storms and have them as day/night/or heavy fog maps?
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The far z-clip is something I'll probably add.
You can change the skybox, fog settings, map light style, sun, background color. But a maps default weather such rain, lightning and for example the Hard Rain storm transition, between idle and storm, work as default and cannot be modified. Someone could write a plugin which removes a few logic entities to prevent the default storm doing stuff.
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Originally Posted by chatyak
Thank you for your contributions silvers. I have most if not all of your plugins and use them on my server. I added this and tested it last night and it seems to work very well, granted my PC is high end - not sure about others. Will test it tonight.
I am a little confused on how to setup certain things. For example - how would I get lightning to strike all over the ground on the first map of parish (waterfront) for instance?
Is there a way to specify how/where/when lightning strikes and causes fire?
I'm not as experienced in this as you are. I see how certain map names have their own specific details... just trying to learn.
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Thanks.
The lightning will randomly strike within a large area during the storm state (not idle). There is a problem with the trace ray, causing it to hit the skybox, so the lightning strike never makes it to the ground. I tried a few different ways but nothing fixed it.
Fire will be created where lightning hits the ground, if enabled with the "lightning_damage" key. The fire lasts for 5 seconds, but could be made configurable if you want that added.
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