Although weather sync was added by Koncord to the rewrite in fd721143e2 in a way that used surprisingly few lines of code, it relied on the server requesting weather states every second from authority players and sending them to non-authority players, while also allowing only very sudden weather transitions across regions, i.e. if there was one player in the Ascadian Isles who had stormy weather, and another player with clear weather in the Bitter Coast Region walked across to the Ascadian Isles, that player was instantly made to have stormy weather with no kind of transition at all.
My approach solves both of those problems. It solves the packet spam by only sending weather updates to the server when weather changes happen or when there are new arrivals to a weather authority's region, and it allows for both sudden weather transitions when players teleport to a region and for soft, gradual transitions when players walk across to a region. It is inspired by my previous actor sync, and uses a WorldRegionAuthority packet to set players as region authorities in a similar way to how ActorAuthority sets players as cell AI authorities. Weather changes are created only by the region authority for a given region, and weather packets are also only sent by that authority.
However, it should be noted that gradual weather transitions are used by default in this implementation. To use sudden weather transitions, the serverside Lua scripts need to forward WorldWeather packets with the forceWeather boolean set to true. That is, however, already handled by our default Lua scripts in situations where it makes sense.
To fix warnings:
/usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:588:8: warning: delete called on non-final 'NifOsg::ControllerFunction' that has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
[-Wdelete-non-virtual-dtor]
delete __p;
^
/usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:595:4: note: in instantiation of function template specialization
'std::__shared_count<__gnu_cxx::_S_atomic>::__shared_count<NifOsg::ControllerFunction *>' requested here
: __shared_count(__p)
^
/usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/bits/shared_ptr_base.h:1079:17: note: in instantiation of function template specialization
'std::__shared_count<__gnu_cxx::_S_atomic>::__shared_count<NifOsg::ControllerFunction *>' requested here
: _M_ptr(__p), _M_refcount(__p, typename is_array<_Tp>::type())
^
/usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/bits/shared_ptr.h:129:25: note: in instantiation of function template specialization 'std::__shared_ptr<NifOsg::ControllerFunction,
__gnu_cxx::_S_atomic>::__shared_ptr<NifOsg::ControllerFunction, void>' requested here
shared_ptr(_Yp* __p) : __shared_ptr<_Tp>(__p) { }
^
/home/elsid/dev/openmw/components/nifosg/nifloader.cpp:242:39: note: in instantiation of function template specialization 'std::shared_ptr<NifOsg::ControllerFunction>::shared_ptr<NifOsg::ControllerFunction, void>' requested here
callback->setFunction(std::shared_ptr<NifOsg::ControllerFunction>(new NifOsg::ControllerFunction(key)));
^
/usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/bits/unique_ptr.h:78:2: warning: delete called on non-final 'MWGui::ResponseCallback' that has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor
[-Wdelete-non-virtual-dtor]
delete __ptr;
^
/usr/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/../../../../include/c++/7.3.1/bits/unique_ptr.h:268:4: note: in instantiation of member function 'std::default_delete<MWGui::ResponseCallback>::operator()' requested here
get_deleter()(__ptr);
^
/home/elsid/dev/openmw/apps/openmw/mwgui/dialogue.cpp:58:23: note: in instantiation of member function 'std::unique_ptr<MWGui::ResponseCallback, std::default_delete<MWGui::ResponseCallback> >::~unique_ptr' requested here
PersuasionDialog::PersuasionDialog(ResponseCallback* callback)
^
This allows the OnPCDrop variable to get set correctly even when object placements have to go through the server first in order to gain a unique multiplayer index (mpNum).
Among other things, this makes it possible to roll marijuana joints in the popular mod "Tribunal Code Patch".
Previously, reusing the console's object selection code made it so using the same Ptr twice in a row was akin to clicking on the same object twice in the console window, i.e. the object was deselected the second time around. Additionally, that same code was setting key focus to the hidden console window, preventing players from moving until they activated another window (such as their inventory or chat window).
