This addon adds weather effects to any server, such as rain, snow, thunderstorms, blizzards, and fog, as well as a day/night cycle.
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRo6MlbQlQ0
Features
- Beautiful effects - choose between rain, snow, storms, blizzards, and fog to add immersion and depth to your server.
- Day/Night system - create the effect of an entire atmosphere.
- Optimized - designed for use on any-sized server, and for any user.
- Synchronized weather and time - all players see the same type of weather and time of day, no matter if they just joined or have been playing for hours.
- Auto-weather - start and stop weather every so often, based on the addon's configuration.
- Extremely configurable - customize everything from the size of rain droplets to the auto-weather delay.
- Administration commands - control the system through easy-to-use console commands, ULX, or Maestro, depending on what's installed.
- Immersive - from colormod to individual rain droplets onscreen to thunder and lightning to moving the sun around, no expense was spared.
- Versatile - works on any map or gamemode.
- Clientside configuration - players can optimize performance settings for themselves if wanted.
- Addon format - easy to install.
- Workshop support - all the custom content is hosted on theWorkshopfor fast downloading.
Tested on my PC - here are the statistics for performance drop per-effect. All effect settings are customizable if you don't get a desired FPS!
No effect: ~120fps
Rain: ~100fps
Snow: ~90fps
Storm: ~70fps
Script filesize: 50kb
Contentfilesize: 3.9mb
Installation
Copy the SimpleWeather folder to your addons directory. After that, read the readme.
Admin Commands
- sw_weather[type] - Change the weather.
- sw_stopweather- Clear the skies.
- sw_autoweather[0/1] - Toggle auto-weather.
- sw_settime[0-24] - Set the time (0 is midnight, 12 is noon, 15 is 3pm, etc.)
- sw_enabletime[0/1] - Freeze the passage of time.
- !weatheroptions - Bring up the client configuration menu.