Enhanced Weather

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Author:	HTF
Thread(s):	Bethesda Mod Forums
Version:	1.3.7
Last Updated:	9th June 2009
Requires:	Patch 1.2.0416
Download(s):	TESNexus

[edit] Summary

Enhanced Weather is the next generation of photorealistic weather mod. Unlike most other such mods available, it merely adds to, instead of replacing, Oblivion's default weather system, resulting in a seamless blend of both vanilla and new weathers, as well as some unique features.

Enhanced Weather has been coded from the ground up to give a more immersive and life-like weather system, and much of its work is invisible, making sure that the weather 'just feels right'. With it, there is little in the game weather-wise that feels jarring or wrong, and the weather acts as it does in the real world: you can get long spells of hot weather with showers in between or changeable weather that can't make up its mind or just plain nice weather that is nice to relax in.

Enhanced Weather has many new and unique features designed with the user in mind. These include a light weight seasonal weather script, photorealistic textures, around 30 new perfected weathers, and user customisable night luminance levels, be it darker or brighter, without the need for separate plugins.

[edit] Features

• Enhances Oblivion's default weathers with around 30 new weathers, all tweaked to perfection.
• SI support, to enhance the weather of the Shivering Isles with about 60 new weathers.
• An all-new seasonal weather system - get snow in Frost Fall etc.
• Enhanced Nights, a system for customisable night light levels, through OBSE and an ini file, supporting both Tamriel and SI.
• Darker Nights plugins for those who don't have OBSE.
• HDR tweaks, to lessen the weather creating a 'nuclear dawn'.
• Timescale-bound weather, so the weather works at the same speed as your day.
• Enhanced Seasons, a feature for improving the seasonal feel of the game.
• User customisable weather transition speeds for both Tamriel and SI.
• User customisable weather colours for both Tamriel and SI.

[edit] Pictures

More At TES Nexus

50% darker nights	80% darker nights	Clear 1	Clear 2
Storm at vanilla night	Rain	Summer sunset	Vanilla nights
Snowfall	Partly Cloudy	Pink Sunset

[edit] FAQs

• Question: I have a problem with something related to the mod not answered here. What do I do?

• Answer: The best thing you can do is to post in the Forum thread. Also check that you have set up your EnhancedWeather.ini correctly, and that you are using no other weather mod.

• Question: What happened to AWS?

• Answer: Enhanced Weather is the next generation of AWS, in the sense that it has now replaced AWS in terms of development. It does however, have a lot of differences to AWS, being built from the ground up to leave a smaller footprint, and has some unique new features, which we are quite proud of.

• Question: I heard that this mod was dead, what gives?

• Answer: HTF gave up working on the mod, as he lost his drive. He then declared the mod dead, but open to people picking it up and continuing it. WrinklyNinja and Halo! decided to carry on where he left off, with HTF advising us. However, Halo went MIA, so now WrinklyNinja continues to develop the mod alone.

[edit] Version History

• 1.3.5
  • Added Timescaled Weather for SI.
  • Updated optional features to use arrays from OBSE v17.
  • Implemented OBSE v17 based SI weather script.
  • Updated Enhanced Nights with a Darker Sky toggle.
  • SI and Tamriel changes are now applied outwith the esm, meaning both are now standalone based on the esp used.
  • Swapped the latitude/altitude detection for region detection in the weather script.
  • Optimised scripts.
  • Inverted weather script region blacklist to ensure compatibility with mods adding new worldspaces.
  • Fixed weather classifications for compatibility with other mods.
  • Fixed bug in Enhanced Colours.
  • Implemented Enhanced Colours for SI.
  • Re-instate Timer variable into timescaled weather to allow adjusting of how long weathers stick around for without changing timescale.
  • Added a new optional feature: Enhanced Colours.
  • Fixed bright horizon banding at night bug in Enhanced Nights.
  • Ini file updated with new Enhanced Transitions parameters, verbosity increased.
  • Enhanced Transitions switched from using exact value parameters to multipliers of vanilla values.
  • Safety checks added to scripts to ensure valid values are being applied.
  • EnhancedWeather.esm dependancy removed from Enhanced Seasons plugin.
• 1.3
  • Optimised textures, textures now in BSA, bug fixes, cloud speed now affected by timescale.
• 1.2
  • Bug fixes, Enhanced Seasons updated for ScreenEffects 1.0.
• 1.1
  • Enhanced Seasons, Enhanced Transitions, Enhanced Transitions for SI implemented, scripts optimised/cleaned up.
• 1.0.7
  • More refactoring, timescale-bound weather scripts, season and climate tweaks, bug fixes.
• 1.0.5
  • Fixed bugs. Refactoring and restructuring. Added Enhanced Nights for SI.
• 1.0
  • Fixed bugs. Added SI support, HDR tweaks, Darker Nights plugins and Enhanced Nights
• 0.9
  • Initial BETA release.

[edit] Credits

• Everyone who supported the mod, whether it be through bug reports, encouragement, or screenshots.
• Corepc for resizing the textures, cutting the ram use by more than half.
• Thirith for his incredible generosity in buying WrinklyNinja a copy of SI to help with development.
• HTF for creating this mod, and allowing it to live on.
• Halo! for bugfixing, some plugins, mod structuring and scripting.
• WrinklyNinja for some plugins, bugfixing, refactoring and scripting.
• Kyoma for helping with the scripting.
• Strategy Master for helping with the scripting.
• The OBSE Team for creating OBSE.