Randomised time of day and/or weather?

[Pizzicato]

Hey all,

 

Am I right in thinking that there's currently no way to randomise time of day or weather presets for a mission? As an example, it would be great to be able to set a mission to play out at a random time within daylight hours, or to randomly select from a subset of the cloud presets within highly procedural/replayable missions - just to help keep the experience fresh.

 

Pretty sure I already know the answer to this, but I wanted to make 100% certain that I'm not missing some clever workaround.

Edited October 1, 2021 by Pizzicato

[PravusJSB]

Yes its possible if you're OK with programming

[Grimes]

It is possible in the sense that you have to modify the miz file itself to change the values. For instance the Hoggit servers import live weather data into each mission on their servers so that the weather is roughly accurate to real world conditions. 

[Exorcet]

An alternative method that might work is making multiple copies of the mission with hardcoded weather/times and then putting them all in a single campaign stage. I think campaign will pick one of the missions at random.

[Pizzicato]

On 10/2/2021 at 9:11 PM, Exorcet said:

An alternative method that might work is making multiple copies of the mission with hardcoded weather/times and then putting them all in a single campaign stage. I think campaign will pick one of the missions at random.

 

Yeah, I'd considered that exact same solution. That seems like the most reasonable approach for me given that I'm comfortable with Lua, but not enough of a programmer to be able to dynamically open, adjust, and save out *.miz files.

 

Thanks for the input, Exorcet.