More Immersive Sounding Weather
MIS-Weather v0.9 released 8/4/06
by PsychEroc
NOTE: the new storm settings contained in the .esp file are NOT compatible with NE/NW, but the new sounds will work fine without the .esp and will work fine with NE/NW
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Better Storms! Experience rain and thunderstorms more intensely & immersively with 8 brand new high quality thunder sounds (distant & claps), enhanced OB weather sounds (wind,rain, thunder), and enhanced rain and thunderstorm settings (including more intensity and better variety of thunder and wind). Includes newer versions of some files included in Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul (OSSO) v0.9.


BACKGROUND
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-For some reason vanilla OB weather types do not randomly select sound files very well. If you pay close attention, you'll notice that during any single thunderstorm you will only hear two thunder sounds played repeatedly: one thunder clap sound played repeatedly and one distant thunder sound played repeatedly. There should be more variety! For each new storm, vanilla OB randomly chooses which two sounds you'll hear, but during a single storm it does not randomly play a variety of sounds. Well, now it does! For each thunderstorm experienced with MIS-Weather, you will now have the possibility of hearing 4 different thunder clap sounds (randomly chosen from 8 different sounds) and 4 different distant thunder sounds (randomly chosen from 8 different sounds).

-This mod is partly a way of showing off my Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul (OSSO) mod which enhances and adds variety to most of Oblivion's stereo sounds. Although most of the enhanced sounds included in More Immersive Sounding Weather (MIS-W) are also in OSSO, MIS-W has the newest updates with brand new thunder sounds (rather than just tweaked OB sounds)!


COMPATIBILITY
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-NEW SOUNDS ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH:
-x- Lightning Strikes During Storms mod
-x- Real Thunder Sounds mod

-STORM SETTINGS ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH:
-x- Natural Environments/Weather (but new sounds will work fine)

-EVERYTHING IS COMPATIBLE WITH:
-+- Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul (OSSO) by PsychEroc
-+- More Immersive Sound by Deckard (as long as MIS loads before MIS-Weather)
-+- Most other mods that don't affect weather or these particular sounds


FILES INCLUDED
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- MIS Weather.esp - Necessary for getting more intensity and better variety of thunder and wind during storms. Feel free to delete the .esp and keep the sound files if you like them but don't want the .esp to conflict with other mods.
- Enhanced OB sound files - Enhanced versions of OB weather loops, distant thunder sounds, and thunder clap sounds. Loops have been extended and edited so that they sound less "loopy". All included sound files have enhanced bass and stereo dynamics. These sounds are also part of Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul (OSSO), however these are the newest versions available. So, OSSO users will want to keep these files whether or not the .esp is kept. These files will be used by the game even if you don't use the .esp.
- 8 New Thunder Sound files - Four brand new distant thunder sounds and four brand new thunder claps (not just tweaks of OB sounds). These are brand new and not included in OSSO, so OSSO users should overwrite their old thunder sounds with these and keep these whether or not the .esp. is kept. These files will be used by the game even if you don't use the .esp.


INSTALLATION NOTES
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-To install, decompress 7zip archive into your Oblivion folder and click "yes to all". When loading Oblivion, chose the MIS-W data file to activate the esp.

-If you use More Immersive Sound (MIS), it must load before MIS-Weather or else MIS-Weather will not work. (In other words, load MIS first, then MIS-Weather.)

-If you use Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul (OSSO) simply copy over the OSSO sounds with these newer versions.

-If you install Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul (OSSO) after MIS-Weather, then you will need to re-install MIS-W to get the newer version of the sounds back.

-To uninstall esp, simply delete it from the Oblivion\Data folder.

-To uninstall new & enhanced sound files, simply delete them from the following folders:
Oblivion\Data\sound\fx\ambient\thunder
Oblivion\Data\sound\fx\ambient\thunderdistant
oblivion\Data\sound\fx\ambient


USAGE SUGGESTIONS & NOTES
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1. Once installed and loaded, follow these steps to immediately experience the mod:
-a) Go outdoors
-b) Open Console: press the "~" key
-c) Type "fw 00038ef2", press "Enter", then close console by pressing the "~" key again. This forces the weather to rain immediately.
-d) After experiencing a little rain, open the console again ("~"), type "sw 00038ef1", press "Enter", then close the console ("~"). This will make a thunderstorm slowly begin (be patient and don't move around too much or it may not ever start)
-e) After the thunderous experience, the storm will pass naturally and you can continue with your game.

2. Since the sound selection is random, by chance you could get a "dud" storm. In other words, every once in a while OB will randomly select the same sound to play over and over making the storm much less interesting. If this happens, just start the storm again (with the steps above) or wait until the next one.

3. I've eliminated any sun damage caused by thunderstorms. So vampires can get one of the weather control mods and safely create thunderstorms wherever & whenever they want.

4. To hear enhanced wind and a variety of other enhanced sounds, please download and install Oblivion Stereo Sound Overhaul (OSSO) first, then install this mod afterward.

5. To get relatively louder and more frequent ambient sounds (including the enhanced sounds from this mod), please use More Immersive Sound (MIS) by Deckard.