Help me with weather effects plz (Help a noob out)

When im in the world editor all of the weather effects on my map work......But when I go to play it, none of them show up :(

If you have encountered my problem and know how to fix it, please tell me. Without weather effects my Link to the Past map doesnt make sense....For some reason they just stopped working, when they used to work all the time. Please, im in need of assisstance. :(

I know there is environment triggers. You might try those or try creating the weather as a variable then turn it on with a trigger at map initialization. But if you just use a region and set the weather effect it should work all the time.

easy solution: what are your detail settings? For custom maps, weather effects only want to show up when you have your detail settings on medium or higher. I found this one out when my weather effects refused to work (and I knew for sure the trigger was correct).


Trigger solution(if previous solution didn't work): When you create a weather effect, you must also turn it on.

For example, here's how I did the "Dalaran shield" weather effect in my map:

Create a variable of type "Weather Effect"

Now, the trigger for it to work:
Environment - Create at (region where you want effect) the weather effect Dalaran Shield
Set (name of your weather variable) = (Last created weather effect)
Environment - Turn (name of your weather variable) On

When I needed to turn it off later:
Environment - Turn (name of your weather variable) Off

True dat. Im just too lazy to write it all.

Thanks guys, ill try it out. But i still have a question about music files. Is there a mod or WAV to add midi music files to a wc map instead of just Wav and mp3 music files? If there is, my map would be complete :D

Well, im no sound expert, but i can tell you that the game has to support midis and mod files (such as the music that unreal uses) , in order for you to use them.

Converting a MIDI to a MP3 file is nearly criminal ;) Id suggest that you try to find a MP3 version of your song, and when your map is complete, just host a DL server on BNET for it. (ie an empty room with a message where they just dl the map).

If you host a server for a couple of days, your map will be well distributed and you wont have too much trouble with people screaming "GOGOGOGOGO" or telling you to boot the slow DL ers when you try to host a game.

Ive been passing around a 700 KB map on battlenet, and if people will wait around for that, then odds are they will wait for your map with a MP3 file in it.

(although you might want to give the sound forum a shot, maybe they know something).

But there is a problem. I cant do that. My map with mp3 files is over 20000k. Ive tried that before. It takes over an hour to dl, and people just leave :(

Lower the MP3 quality to 64 kb/second. You can find various programs online to do that for you.

Musicmatch jokebox isn't bad for conversion.

-TheDownwardSpiral

Thank you