Script help - Force weather on trigger box entry

[Robinsage]

Hi all,

 

I'm trying to put a script together that will force a weather type when the player enters a trigger box. Here is the (probably bad) layout of the script I want to attach to the trigger box:

 

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Event OnTriggerEnter(ObjectReference Somebody)
String EnteredArea = "You take shelter from the weather"
Actor Player = GetPlayer()
If Somebody == Player
Debug.Notification(EnteredArea)
** Weather.ForceActive(true)
EndIf
EndEvent

 

Event OnTriggerLeave(ObjectReference Somebody)
String LeftArea = "You head back into the weather"
Actor Player = GetPlayer()
If Somebody == Player
Debug.Notification(LeftArea)

Weather.ReleaseOverride()
EndIf
EndEvent

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** is where I'm struggling to get the weather I want to force in to work (can I work in a form ID for specific weather types?). Basically I want to change the weather to cloudy (ID 105f40).

 

Maybe I'm going about it all wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[kromey]

Looks like what you have will work once you create a property for the weather you want. In the CK, where you've attached the script, double-click on it and click Add Property, then add a Weather property and call it something like CloudyWeather. Hit okay, then select it in the properties window and choose your weather from the drop-down list on the right.

 

You'll then have to change your

Weather.ForceActive(True)

and

Weather.ReleaseOverride()

lines to use your property instead of the type.

[Robinsage]

I got it working thank you. I also had to add import game command to get the getplayer value to work.

 

Thank you!

 

This is how it turned out:

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Weather Property stormcloud Auto
import game

Event OnTriggerEnter(ObjectReference Somebody)
String EnteredArea = "You take shelter from the weather"
Actor Player = GetPlayer()
If Somebody == Player
Debug.Notification(EnteredArea)
stormcloud.ForceActive(true)
EndIf
EndEvent

Event OnTriggerLeave(ObjectReference Somebody)
String LeftArea = "You head back into the weather"
Actor Player = GetPlayer()
If Somebody == Player
Debug.Notification(LeftArea)
weather.ReleaseOverride()
EndIf
EndEvent

[kromey]

If you use

Game.GetPlayer()

, you don't have to import game.

 

Also, if you use

Actor Property PlayerREF Auto

, and auto-fill it, and then use PlayerREF in your code instead of either form of GetPlayer(), that's actually a more efficient way of referencing the player -- a hundred times faster, by some benchmarks!

 

Anyway, glad you got it working. :)

[Robinsage]

Great, I really appreciate the tips. I'll take efficiency any day. :happy:

 

Now I'm working on getting the script to run only in non-cloudy weather so I don't end up transitioning to cloudy weather during, cloudy weather >.< The weather types to transition from are propertied out but I'm not sure if it would be a Function if/else or something else.