Important Announcements: 

1/16/23: I will have limited availability during the grad semester. I have not
abandoned my mods and will still be able to answer questions and work on
updates. My response times however will be slow until the semester is over. I
plan to work on releasing a couple of big updates when I have more time
available in the Summer.

Upcoming Upgrades to the Backend:
There will be scheduled upgrades to the backend later this July in order to further harden sensitive information such as geographical ip addresses's and weather forecast data. The backend will re-issue new key's and service urls. Currently only Ambient light is prepared for this change, SDVWM and Real Weather will be ready for the backend upgrades before this major change is made. (Once this change is implemented and there will be enough time in advance to make ready for it, all versions prior to 2022.06.25 will no longer return weather forecast data after these upgrades are complete. 

State of the Mod Plans for 2021-2023

• Add custom weather types (Mist, Fog, Humidity, Sleet)
• Add a config option to receive a notification 10 in game minutes before the weather in your location will affect your game, along with the weather condition.
• Add a config option to set the weather interval (The amount of in game time before the weather in your location affects the game
• Use Historical Data to randomize weather events - Credit to VonLoewe
  

  Submit your own feature or improvement to be added to this list for 2020-2021
  Real Weather Feedback Form



Real Weather
Real Weather is an add-on for the Weather Machine, it can either be used as a stand alone, or as a direct add-on to the Weather Machine. When ran in stand alone mode, the mod will function independently and allow you to experience weather events in real time in-game based on the user's physical location. It does this by getting a local weather report based on your area and then uses that data to determine how to set the current weather conditions in game. 

When ran directly along side the Weather Machine, Real Weather will communicate with the Weather Machine and get the data directly from it, rather than manually get the data independently. This means that Real Weather gets the local weather data from the Weather Machine rather than directly and then uses that data to function. You can either run this as a mod or you can run this along side the Weather Machine, it's entirely up to you. The mod affects the way the game generates weather. Rather than have weather be randomly generated by default; the weather in game can change in any given hour (In real hours) and depending on the weather forecast in your location. You could suddenly see the weather outside change dynamically from a bright and sunny day to a sudden rain and gloomy afternoon. It provides players with the level of unexpected feeling that you may not know what will happen next in your farm.

Best of all, this mod is directly supported by it's users, feedback is encouraged and helps me improve the mod and add the features you want to see.
If you have a question or would like to suggest a new possible feature, head to the forums comment section and tell me how we can make Real Weather better. Although, I may not be able to implement every feature requested. I will consider any feature request and depending on the length of time, amount of research required, and or whether it's free or not. I may be able to make this a future feature. or If you just want to tell me how am doing, hey that works too.




Real Weather currently provides these weather conditions for players in real-time:

• Rain
• Thunderstorm
• Sleet
• Snow
• Fog (Coming soon!)
  

Additional weather conditions will be supported in the near future.

Bug Fixes and Changes