Weather Types

Each weather type is a type of weather that occurs, and what causes it. The only required entries are null and clear.

weather_type properties

Identifier	Description
name	UI name of weather type.
id	Unique string for this weather type.
color	UI color of weather type.
map_color	Map color of weather type.
sym	Map glyph of weather type.
ranged_penalty	Penalty to ranged attacks.
sight_penalty	Penalty to per-square visibility, applied in transparency map.
light_modifier	modification to ambient light.
sound_attn	Sound attenuation of a given weather type.
dangerous	If true, our activity gets interrupted.
precip	Amount of associated precipitation. Valid values are: none, very_light, light and heavy
rains	Whether said precipitation falls as rain.
tiles_animation	Optional, name of the tiles animation to use
debug_cause_eoc	Optional, id of effect_on_condition to be run when the debug menu selects this weather.
debug_leave_eoc	Optional, id of effect_on_condition to be run when the debug menu is used to leave this weather.
sound_category	Optional, what sound effect to play. Valid values are: silent, drizzle, rainy, thunder, flurries, snowstorm and snow.
duration_min	Optional, the lower bound on the amount of time this weather can last. Defaults to 5 minutes.
duration_max	Optional, the upper bound on the amount of time this weather can last. Defaults to 5 minutes.
weather_animation	Optional, Information controlling weather animations. Members: factor, color and glyph
sun_multiplier	Optional, multiplier to radiation from sun. Affects energy output of solar panels.
condition	A dialog condition to determine if this weather is happening. See Dialogue conditions section of NPCs A context variable of weather_location contains the location of the current tile checking its weather. This can be used to have weather be based on location.
priority	An integer. If the condition of multiple weather types are true the one with higher priority wins.
required_weathers	A string array of possible weathers, it is at this point in the loop. i.e. rain can only happen if the conditions for clouds light drizzle or drizzle are present. Required weathers need to have lower load orders to be.

weather_type example

```json [ { “id”: “lightning”, “type”: “weather_type”, “name”: “Lightning Storm”, “color”: “c_yellow”, “map_color”: “h_yellow”, “sym”: “%”, “ranged_penalty”: 4, “sight_penalty”: 1.25, “light_modifier”: -45, “sound_attn”: 8, “dangerous”: false, “precip”: “heavy”, “rains”: true, “required_weathers”: [ “thunder” ], “priority”: 80, “condition”: { “math”: [ “weather(‘pressure’)”, “<”, “990” ] } } ]