setSimulWeatherLayers

Arma 3 v1.00

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Description

Sets number of simul weather layers, affects quality of simul weather clouds.

Syntax

setSimulWeatherLayers layers

Parameters:

layers: Number - cloud layers. -1 to reset to defaults (since 2.20), 0 to disable simul weather.

Returns: Nothing

Examples

Example 1

setSimulWeatherLayers 0; // Very flat clouds

Problems

Prior to Arma 3 v2.20 the effect of this command seems to be persistent across the game instance, e.g. restarting a mission will not reset it.

Community notes

Sa-Matra

2022-08-01

You can revert clouds back to volumetric ones by executing this script:

private _display_menu = findDisplay 46 createDisplay "RscDisplayInterrupt"; // ESC menu
ctrlActivate (_display_menu displayCtrl 301); // Pressing "Video" button
ctrlActivate (findDisplay 5 displayCtrl 2); // Pressing "Cancel" in Video menu
_display_menu closeDisplay 2; // Closing ESC menu

Pressing "Cancel" button in Video menu makes engine re-init the clouds, reverting results of this command. Make sure its in unscheduled environment, otherwise players might see flashing menu and you'll have a serialization error message.