Weather Control

I would very much like to see a plug-in that allows admins to control the weather. For example, with a simple command the admin could change the weather to rain and thunder. Then, if in a snowy area, be able to make it snow. Being that update 1.5 has brought this to minecraft, I think this would be a really fun and interesting plug-in. Please tell me what you think.
Thanks,
Noah

 

I second that!

 

The one problem I see with this is that, weather varies from chunk to chunk, so either we get the same weather or something like this

/weather snow rect 10
This would make snow fall in the area selected, (a square/circle with furthest points 10 chunks away from you, similar to towy's system.
/weather rain
This would simply make the wealth of the current chunks you are in raining.
/weather storm <player name>
Would make the chunk the player is in have a storm
/weather snow <name> rect 5
Easily explained earlier
Finally,
/weather clear all
Would set the sever wide weather to clear skies,
I have no idea how to change this on a sever, I'm not a developer , just giving some ideas

Cheers, Jack

 

I think the weather is client sided so this may not be able to work.

 

Shame if it is client side. Would love to be able to anchor a storm over an area, e.g. mountain fortress or create maybe a 'Storm Sea'.

 

wait so if it is client sided and you are playing multi-player and it starts to rain does that mean only you see the rain and the rest of the people in your server don't?

 

Most likely, yes, going off of that theory anyways.

I do believe that the weather is server-sided, but I have yet to look at the Minecraft server source code for 1.5. We'll find out what is and is not possible when Bukkit starts releasing updates for 1.5.

I would happily code something of this sort. I'm releasing two or three plugins this weekend, this may be one of them, assuming that 1.5 is fully converted over.

 

Remember they said that weather happens globally. Just make a command for a set amount of time, and another command to stop it.
And good luck.

 

Oh thankyou. Hopefully it is on server-side. It would make the game that much better! And with the 1.5_01 update released a couple of hours ago, hopefully bukkit will start to release a recommended build for it
and I can't wait for your plugins. I'll shall be looking out for you. Thank you for your work and support with all your plugins

 

I think there is a server-side part to it as Minecraft has released their 1.5_02 Minecraft_server.jar file available for download...

when you get it just decompile it and scramble through and you will find your answer

i am not the top developer but have just submitted my new plugin: mcdMessage... please check it out here and comment : http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/ge...our-own-custom-message-to-your-players.13734/

and yeh im not the best developer/cracker but i think i found something that i thought showed that it was related to a server-side base... so check it out if you have the ability to decompile it..

(i used eclipse to decompile the jars and a special jar application coded by my friend to help me find these kind of answers... but with all this new weather and stuff.. it is really hard :O)

 

Weather is definitely controlled by the server because it would be stupid if some people see a shiny day but others have lightning and rain.

 

Weather affects the environment, so it has to be server-side.

 

@sk89q
Will Bukkit get some functions for get/set weather?

 

yay an update is out for 1.5_02 but it's not recommended

 

I would assume so - it has everything else
maybe they'll add something for achievements

Im running in and its fine - all my plugins from #617 still work!

 

Most likely.

 

Looks like they've added in two blank interfaces : weather and weatherstorm
We'll just have to be patient and wait for them to finish.

 

Where? Can't see anything in docs...

EDIT: Oh, i see