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#2002 Fog Weather Egg Support
There is at least one egg for Fog in Monitor, outside of the List Field to the SW. While the fog function was not implemented in the released game, it could be useful for modders to have this weather pallette available. For example, as part of a quest to clear it.
[09:00:10] <Dominus> KnightCaptain: seems the fog effect is disabled https://github.com/exult/exult/blob/e1bf6478f56276e3eadea4f328983cd713646fbf/objs/egg.cc#L1103
[09:06:57] <Dominus> Marzo: disabled it in https://github.com/exult/exult/commit/dda073f93cc1f0a8e14712443a9d0b655 - the infamous "BIG Commit" - no reason given in the changelog :(
[10:23:20] <Marzo> Dominus: it was because it looked bad, and I never could trigger it on the original game
[10:23:52] <Marzo> There are some eggs that trigger the fog effect, but it doesn't really seem to do anything
[13:02:05] <Dominus> thanks for remembering :)
[00:59:00] <KnightCaptain> Would it be possible to add the fog back? I have a feature request open for it: https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/feature-requests/182/
[01:02:00] <KnightCaptain> My use case for this is for my plot restoration mod for SI that would add back the three banes taking over the three towns. I want to use this in Fawn, which combined with the already white graphics there would make a compelling visual effect.
To see how the fog effect plays out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUmXtsWFpes
adding fog back would probably mean that we need to add a new weather quality (if that is even possible) to not make the original games use fog as they weren't for some reason even when an egg was set to
I took another look at the fog in the original. it IS buggy but I could trigger it on DOSBox.
In BG I found two places the fog occurs 1704, 2616 and 1608, 2616 - both on the ocean. And neither will reliably trigger sometimes yes, sometimes not, starting from the same savegame. BUT as I found out when I looked at SI there is a bug that the palette shift only shows once per start of the game. When you reload a savegame the palette shift won't show unless you trigger a gump (open inventory or hit alt+x to quite the game). But in SI the effect has some light rain added and that shows at least
so you can tell it works and then open a gump and the palette shift shows.
I made a short clip https://youtu.be/VJVR4YHFviA that shows both scenarios.
I think I might turn the fog effect back on and maybe add some rain if I manage.
Ticket moved from /p/exult/feature-requests/182/
I just re-enabled this with a sparkle rain effect along with the fog palette shift.
Last edit: Dominik Reichardt 2017-01-15