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[spaceeinstein]

CONVERTED FOR SAN ANDREAS!

Created by Barton Waterduck for Vice City. Converted by spaceeinstein for San Andreas. This is a script mod that controls the in-game clock to imitate real life ones.

Installation for intermediate scripters only. Please download Barton's mission builder using Craig's link. The weather will stay the same but will be modified later on.

CODE

004F: create_thread ££TimeMod ... :TimeMod 0004: $weather = 6;; integer values 0006: @33 = 0;; integer values  - Reset internal timer :TimeLoop 0001: wait 500 ms 00BF: @1 = current_time_hours, @2 = current_time_minutes 00C0: set_current_time @1 @2 01B5: force_weather $weather 00D6: if 0 0019:   @33 > 59999;; integer values  - if internal timer >= 1 minute 004D: jump_if_false ££TimeLoop 0006: @33 = 0;; integer values  - reset the internal timer 000A: @2 += 1;; integer values 00D6: if 0 0019:   @2 > 59;; integer values 004D: jump_if_false ££TimeModL2 0006: @2 = 0;; integer values 000A: @1 += 1;; integer values 00D6: if 0 0038:   $ON_MISSION == 0;; integer values 004D: jump_if_false ££TimeModL3 0008: $weather += 1;; integer values 00D6: if 0 0018:   $weather > 19;; integer values 004D: jump_if_false ££TimeModL3 0004: $weather = 0;; integer values :TimeModL3 00D6: if 0 0019:   @1 > 23;; integer values 004D: jump_if_false ££TimeModL2 0006: @1 = 0;; integer values :TimeModL2 00C0: set_current_time @1 @2 0002: jump ££TimeLoop

Gltiches: May interfere with timers in the game.

This post has been edited by spaceeinstein on Jul 22 2005, 23:42

[Demarest]

QUOTE (spaceeinstein @ Jul 14 2005, 23:41)

Gltiches: May interfere with timers in the game.

I don't think it will. And shouldn't it say "rewritten for SAMB" instead?

[Dogmeat]

Damn I would love to use this but I just started playing SA with the opened up mod :<
In VC there was only sunny weather when using this mod, same problem here?
Could you release the main.scm file?

[Demarest]

This is a script mod whereas Opened Up is a SCM mod. So you'd have to add this to that. If you got a compiled SCM of this mod, it would be the regular game with just this added.

[Dogmeat]

Thanks... I got it working now... a great mod but there is a problem. The weather does not change... and it isn't even the sunny weather like in the VC version.

This post has been edited by Dogmeat on Jul 15 2005, 09:40

[spaceeinstein]

Why should I say "rewritten for SA MB"? And the weather, I made it so it stays the same. There are a whole lot more weather types in San An but that's was late at night when I converted it.

[Dogmeat]

Well how can I make it to be sunny weather because the default one puts your drawdistance to 0 and everything looks just blue and white

"0004: $weather = 6;; integer values"
Could it be this?

[Demarest]

QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Jul 16 2005, 01:20)

"0004: $weather = 6;; integer values" Could it be this?

Nah. That's just the setting of a variable. Until that variable gets used for something, it wouldn't effect your game at all.

For that matter, this code is totally useless

CODE

0008: $weather += 0;; integer values 00D6: if 0 0018:   $weather > 6;; integer values 004D: jump_if_false ££TimeModL3 0004: $weather = 6;; integer values

...which begins to reveal what I meant by it being translated for SAMB. As CyQ pointed out earlier in the week, it's not really converting mods because with the exception of using @33 instead of @17, nothing about this is platform specific. It's just reworked so that a different interpreter can use it. If it was converted, code like I quoted would've been eliminated because it does nothing. $WEATHER is set to 6 to start, incremented, and constantly put through an if >6 then 6 check. It's ALWAYS going to be 6. So instead of using another global var, just always say force weather 6 and be done with it.

[Dogmeat]

My skills on modding scm are almost zero... I can't figure out how to make it sunny. Could somebody just paste the line?

[spaceeinstein]

O, yes, about that weather part, it was for my All In One Mod which uses the real time clock mod to make my permanent sunny weather in Vice City. I converted straight from that. Barton didn't do that, I did that, for my dead mod. If you want to fix that, here it is.

CODE

0008: $weather += 1 ;; integer values 00D6: if 0 0018:   $weather > 19 ;; integer values 004D: jump_if_false ££TimeModL3 0004: $weather = 0 ;; integer values

[Dogmeat]

Hmm i'm getting some sort of error when I try to compile it.

"Memory beyond the defined range has been accessed. Use DEFINE MEMORY 43805 or higher to allocate enough memory."

[Demarest]

QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Jul 16 2005, 12:40)

"Memory beyond the defined range has been accessed. Use DEFINE MEMORY 43805 or higher to allocate enough memory."

Actually, it says to set it to that and recompile. So... set it to that and recompile

[CyQ]

durrr locals

but, here's the proper way to make your game 'real time' (ie without screwing up the weather or having to start a new game, etc):

1. open up your savegame in a hex editor.
2. at offset 81h change the two bytes "E8 03" to "60 EA". this changes the length of an in-game minute from 1000 milliseconds to 60000 ms.
3. then, at the very end of the savegame (offset 317FCh), add 5Fh to the dword there. this adjusts the savegame's checksum so that sa won't detect your tampering with it.
4. load it up!

[Dogmeat]

Lol I didn't even notice the "define memory" at the start
I now compiled it but the weather is still the same...
And for that hex editor stuff... I managed to change the first part but I didn't get it the last part of it (dword)... forget this thing... I had enough

This post has been edited by Dogmeat on Jul 17 2005, 07:50

[julmajukka]

Hello! I put this code to opened up mod and it works fine (Sky looks little foggy). I was doing some missions and savings, weather was same until i was driving to desert stormy weather starts and i drive fast to los santos to saving my game several times (hoping that stormy go away). Now my game had only weather: storm and it wont stop (i try to save many times and even cheat to get littlefoggy/sunny weather back). How i can get better weather (cloudy or sunny) Please help me?

[Dogmeat]

My game was very foggy too and the weather cheats are not working so I don't think that there is much you can do.

I think that you have to mofidy your save game like CyQ said but I don't understand the
"then, at the very end of the savegame (offset 317FCh), add 5Fh to the dword there" part.

[NDG474]

QUOTE (CyQ @ Jul 16 2005, 17:22)

durrr locals but, here's the proper way to make your game 'real time' (ie without screwing up the weather or having to start a new game, etc): 1. open up your savegame in a hex editor. 2. at offset 81h change the two bytes "E8 03" to "60 EA". this changes the length of an in-game minute from 1000 milliseconds to 60000 ms. 3. then, at the very end of the savegame (offset 317FCh), add 5Fh to the dword there. this adjusts the savegame's checksum so that sa won't detect your tampering with it. 4. load it up!

thanks for the help CyQ, but could you maybe give us some more details for installation? Which hex editor would you recommend?

[Dogmeat]

I was using this one
http://www.hhdsoftware.com/hex-editor-standard.html

[CyQ]

pretty much any hex editor will do. i generally use one called hex workshop.

i'll elaborate on how to do step 3:
- at the very end of the savegame you will find 4 bytes which make up a value. in my savegame these are "B0 27 24 01", but they can be pretty much anything.
- if you reverse them you will get what is called a dword. in my case: 012427B0.
- open up the windows calculator in scientific mode. set it to "hex". enter the dword, and add 5F to it. in my case: 012427B0 + 5F = 0124280F.
- reverse the result again (0F 28 24 01), and overwrite the last 4 bytes in the savegame with that.

[Dogmeat]

Thanks man! Now it seems to work just fine.

---Edit: Blah the weather is still kinda foggy...---

This post has been edited by Dogmeat on Jul 18 2005, 14:11