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.
cppcheck:
[apps/esmtool/record.cpp:697]: (performance) Prefer prefix ++/-- operators for non-primitive types.
[apps/esmtool/record.cpp:1126]: (performance) Prefer prefix ++/-- operators for non-primitive types.
[apps/esmtool/record.cpp:1138]: (performance) Prefer prefix ++/-- operators for non-primitive types.
[apps/niftest/niftest.cpp:36]: (performance) Function parameter 'filename' should be passed by reference.
[apps/niftest/niftest.cpp:41]: (performance) Function parameter 'filename' should be passed by reference.
[apps/opencs/model/prefs/boolsetting.cpp:25]: (warning) Possible leak in public function. The pointer 'mWidget' is not deallocated before it is allocated.
[apps/opencs/model/prefs/shortcuteventhandler.cpp:52]: (warning) Return value of std::remove() ignored. Elements remain in container.
[apps/openmw/mwstate/quicksavemanager.cpp:5]: (performance) Variable 'mSaveName' is assigned in constructor body. Consider performing initialization in initialization list.
PVS-Studio:
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apps/opencs/view/world/referencecreator.cpp 67 warn V547 Expression '!errors.empty()' is always false.
apps/opencs/view/world/referencecreator.cpp 74 warn V547 Expression '!errors.empty()' is always false.
apps/opencs/view/doc/loader.cpp 170 warn V560 A part of conditional expression is always true: !completed.
apps/opencs/view/doc/loader.cpp 170 warn V560 A part of conditional expression is always true: !error.empty().
apps/opencs/model/tools/pathgridcheck.cpp 32 err V517 The use of 'if (A) {...} else if (A) {...}' pattern was detected. There is a probability of logical error presence. Check lines: 32, 34.
apps/opencs/model/world/refidadapterimp.cpp 1376 err V547 Expression 'subColIndex < 3' is always true.
apps/openmw/mwgui/widgets.hpp 318 warn V703 It is odd that the 'mEnableRepeat' field in derived class 'MWScrollBar' overwrites field in base class 'ScrollBar'. Check lines: widgets.hpp:318, MyGUI_ScrollBar.h:179.
apps/openmw/mwgui/widgets.hpp 319 warn V703 It is odd that the 'mRepeatTriggerTime' field in derived class 'MWScrollBar' overwrites field in base class 'ScrollBar'. Check lines: widgets.hpp:319, MyGUI_ScrollBar.h:180.
apps/openmw/mwgui/widgets.hpp 320 warn V703 It is odd that the 'mRepeatStepTime' field in derived class 'MWScrollBar' overwrites field in base class 'ScrollBar'. Check lines: widgets.hpp:320, MyGUI_ScrollBar.h:181
apps/openmw/mwmechanics/actors.cpp 1425 warn V547 Expression '!detected' is always true.
apps/openmw/mwmechanics/character.cpp 2155 err V547 Expression 'mode == 0' is always true.
apps/openmw/mwmechanics/character.cpp 1192 warn V592 The expression was enclosed by parentheses twice: ((expression)). One pair of parentheses is unnecessary or misprint is present.
apps/openmw/mwmechanics/character.cpp 521 warn V560 A part of conditional expression is always true: (idle == mIdleState).
apps/openmw/mwmechanics/pathfinding.cpp 317 err V547 Expression 'mPath.size() >= 2' is always true.
apps/openmw/mwscript/interpretercontext.cpp 409 warn V560 A part of conditional expression is always false: rank > 9.
apps/openmw/mwgui/windowbase.cpp 28 warn V560 A part of conditional expression is always true: !visible.
apps/openmw/mwgui/journalwindow.cpp 561 warn V547 Expression '!mAllQuests' is always false.
apps/openmw/mwgui/referenceinterface.cpp 18 warn V571 Recurring check. The '!mPtr.isEmpty()' condition was already verified in line 16.
apps/openmw/mwworld/scene.cpp 463 warn V547 Expression 'adjustPlayerPos' is always true.
apps/openmw/mwworld/worldimp.cpp 409 err V766 An item with the same key '"sCompanionShare"' has already been added.
apps/openmw/mwworld/cellstore.cpp 691 warn V519 The 'state.mWaterLevel' variable is assigned values twice successively. Perhaps this is a mistake. Check lines: 689, 691.
apps/openmw/mwworld/weather.cpp 1125 warn V519 The 'mResult.mParticleEffect' variable is assigned values twice successively. Perhaps this is a mistake. Check lines: 1123, 1125.
apps/openmw/mwworld/weather.cpp 1137 warn V519 The 'mResult.mParticleEffect' variable is assigned values twice successively. Perhaps this is a mistake. Check lines: 1135, 1137.
apps/wizard/unshield/unshieldworker.cpp 475 warn V728 An excessive check can be simplified. The '(A && B) || (!A && !B)' expression is equivalent to the 'bool(A) == bool(B)' expression.
apps/wizard/installationpage.cpp 163 warn V735 Possibly an incorrect HTML. The "</p" closing tag was encountered, while the "</span" tag was expected.
components/fontloader/fontloader.cpp 427 err V547 Expression 'i == 1' is always true.
components/nifosg/nifloader.cpp 282 warn V519 The 'created' variable is assigned values twice successively. Perhaps this is a mistake. Check lines: 278, 282.
components/esm/loadregn.cpp 119 err V586 The 'clear' function is called twice for deallocation of the same resource. Check lines: 112, 119.
components/esm/cellref.cpp 178 warn V581 The conditional expressions of the 'if' statements situated alongside each other are identical. Check lines: 175, 178.
components/esmterrain/storage.cpp 235 warn V560 A part of conditional expression is always true: colStart == 0.
components/esmterrain/storage.cpp 237 warn V560 A part of conditional expression is always true: rowStart == 0.
This allows the distant land to actually be seen when the user enables it. The
values used are replicated from MGE XE's default settings and should probably
be exposed somewhere.
