Realistic Interior - Continuous Weather

Allow weather to persist while transitioning from outdoor to indoor units. Appropriate acoustic space can also be added to differentiate interior rooms.

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Overview

First, the research on weather persistence has been done almost entirely by Leaftongue, which deserves credit for all of it.

Secondly, this mod does the following things;

Allow weather to remain stable during transition from indoors to outdoors[/li]

Add appropriate acoustic space indoors to avoid and largely shut out weather noise

This will help create a true indoor-to-outdoor weather illusion. The previous weather switch was forced to use the default indoor weather, so the outside weather would get "stuck" and looped when another unit was switched.

In vanilla Weather, the transition is...

PC goes indoors = there will be sparks in the outside weather

PC indoors = Default indoor weather will play

PC leaves indoors = new outside weather will be generated

This is too bad and has to change. All new cell behavior will not conflict with weather mods as it retains the weather present in each area and should be compatible with most mods by default. Just fill it correctly.

Acoustic Space uses original sound effects and environmental sound effects. When the PC enters the designated space, it just lowers its head to block the sound. The sounds won't conflict, the wounds are just in-game changes.

NOTE: Due to the current inability to reduce thunder and weather effects, not all internal units are labeled correctly, most still retain vanilla behavior. Once we can bypass this, all cells will be labeled.

The image rendering doesn't show the actual vanilla weather, but it should sum up the overall content of the mod.

Install

New Game Required: No - This mod will work on existing saves.

Plug-in Type: ESP Tag ESL – Does not count towards the 255 plug-in limit.

Method: Use the mod manager (Vortex/MO2) or install manually:

Spoilers: The Show

Loading order/priority: load plugin last [▼]

This mod is compatible with all major versions of Fallout 4:

OG/Legacy: v1.10.163 (includes Steam "pre-next gen" and GOG versions)

Next Generation (NG): v1.10.984

Anniversary Edition (AE): v1.11.137, v1.11.169 and v1.11.191

This mod does not affect PreVis and/or PreCombination (PVC).

NOTE: This mod will work out of the box with all vanilla cells using the "Show Sky" logo. The added acoustic space should not cause much conflict, but mods that change the acoustic space may require patches, although rarely. also:

▲ anamorphus enhances lighting and special effects, patches are available in the optional files section

Get ►Real Interior - Continuous Weather

▼ Real windows - indoor long-distance LOD repair, missing fake LOD must be loaded after adding, no patch required

■ NAC

Grid Note: This mod adds new "Show Sky" and "Area" flags/entries for some interiors, which must be patched to be compatible with certain lighting or other mods. See developer instructions below for details.

Technical Description

Lights may be turned off, thunder may occur, although there should not be (small scale)

The window glow is not yet variable (small amplitude)

The special effects used for the indoor sun light have not been patched yet, so they may look a little weird (slightly).

Production staff

Bethesda, gaming and creation toolkit

ElminsterAU + team for their valuable tool xEdit

Arthmoor, on the unofficial Fallout 4 patch - UFO4P

Darkfox127, provides endless informative content

Kesta, provides guidance on stepmodifications.org

Spencer Kimball + Peter Mathis, on behalf of GIMP

Community

Leaftongue, for sharing research on weather persistence