Cloud Leveling

[Lionhardt]

The ones who have used clouds will have noticed, that the cloud height that is defined in the weather generator is a height relative to the markers height. Therefore if the different weather generators have different heights you will end up with clouds at various heights. I wrote quick script that levels all clouds, maybe somebody finds this useful.

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import sys
from sys import argv , stderr

def level_clouds(fileIn, fileOut, targetHeight):
   with open(fileIn, "r") as fileIn:
      fileIn = fileIn.readlines()
      with open(fileOut, "w") as fileOut:
         for i, line in enumerate(fileIn):
            if "'cloudHeight'" in line:
               for j in range(0,10):
                  if "position" in fileIn[i+j]:
                     markerHeight = float(fileIn[i+j].split(", ")[1])
                     break
               left = line.split("FLOAT( ")[0]
               line = left+"FLOAT( "+str(targetHeight - markerHeight)+" ),\n"
            fileOut.write(line)

if __name__ == '__main__':
   if not len(argv) == 4:
      stderr.write("usgae:\npython level_clouds.py <input map_save.lua> <output> <desired cloud height>\n")
      sys.exit()
   else:
      level_clouds(argv[1] , argv[2] , float(argv[3]))

[speed2]

How about updating wiki with this stuff togetherr how to make clouds, how to make them not annoyingly blocking view etc?
Thanks in advance

[Lionhardt]

This wiki?: http://supcom.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[speed2]

No, this FAF updated version I wrote http://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=Map_Editor

You could also add part how to work with world machine to generate heightmap

[Lionhardt]

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[9a300742] 2016-03-16 06:48:56: Fatal exception of type MWException

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I have no account and it won't let me make one...