Seasons

[Calix]

Yay or Nay? I know the tree canopies are an issue for some people for PvP reasons - but they're welcome to use either stump-hack or turn off 'tree canopies' in their own UO directory. I quite like the idea of rotating between the 4-5 options. It doesn't require the players to change anything, or to patch. Simple change in a script.

Following the advice of left-handed eater men, I looked for the description/definitions of the random numbers in the file(in this case mapdefinitions.cs)

Here's the description:

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Map newMap = new Map( mapID, mapIndex, fileIndex, width, height, season, name, rules );

Which relates to

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RegisterMap( 0, 0, 0, 7168, 4096, 4, "Felucca",		MapRules.FeluccaRules );

So the 4 before the "Felucca" = season. A quick bit of experimentation found that 0 = spring, 1 = summer, 2 = autumn, 3 = winter, 4 = Desolation(normal Felucca)

Spring


Summer


Autumn


Winter


Desolation

[Mercury]

yes

[Angus]

Yes.

[Fatalist]

SNOW FALLS IN SQUARES

[Belgarion]

If you would like to be even more creative, create zones which are affected differently.
"mid strip" to have constant spring/summer, beyond that, lots of spring/summer, bit of winter, and beyond that again, even more winter.

A bitch to code, maybe, but innovative?

[Calix]

It kinda works like that anyway - areas that shouldn't get autumn/winter (fire isle, trin-jungle) don't.