Blizzards are annoying

[JonQ]

Playing as Illians my territory is filled up with blizzards. Is there any way turn them off?

 

[[to_xp]Gekko]

agreed that the effect is annoying... I also hate Auric's effect

 

[Neomega]

but they make playing against the Illians so much more fun!

 

[hbar]

As a lifelong Wisconsinite, I wholeheartedly agree

 

[Fafnir13]

All they need is a little more transparency or to disappear if you soom in closer. Can't even see my terrain to build improvements when there's a lot of them.

 

[JonQ]

So is changing the mod files to disable them possible?

 

[Valkrionn]

So is changing the mod files to disable them possible?

Quite easily, assuming Sephi didn't change anything: Delete the 'Blizzards.py' file, and then references to it in CvEventManager and CvSpellInterface... Should be between 5-10 places, nothing major as everything else is just calling the blizzards file.

 

[JonQ]

thanks Valkyrionn

 

[Valkrionn]

thanks Valkrionn, Hamster King

Fixed.

 

[JonQ]

I can find frozen.py and some references to blizzards in cveventmanager. But no blizzard.py.
Perhaps removing the "frozen" folder in modules?

 

[Valkrionn]

I can find frozen.py and some references to blizzards in cveventmanager. But no blizzard.py.
Perhaps removing the "frozen" folder in modules?

In that case it seems Sephi merged them... Which means no easy way to remove it without removing the Frozen.

 

[JonQ]

I will try removing any blizzards spawning from temple of the hand, couldnt find any other reference besides "the deepening".

This is from just looking at the eventmanager not sure if theres other stuff making em spawn.

 

[Pazyryk]

Without blizzards you'll just have those strange ice squares around each Illian city. I really think this system is more organic. I think FlavorMod (and from that Orbis) uses a different spreading system to eliminate the ice squares, but I like blizzards better.

I do agree with the complaint that they are too opaque. Just a little transparency would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Valkrionn]

And RifE, as well; Though the Frozen still spawn blizzards.

 

[TC01]

Not sure how Sephi merged it... but you can shrink the size of the blizzard if you open up CIV4ArtDefines_Feature.xml and search for "FEATURE_BLIZZARD" you can adjust the fScale and fInterfaceScale values.

 

[Sephi]

If you open Assets\config\FFHPlus.xml you can disable the Blizzards modcomp quite easily. You can disable also a lot other modcomps which are part of Wildmana there.

I really need to make a modmodders guide one day.

 

[Pazyryk]

Not sure if making them smaller would help. Is adjusting transparency really that hard?