Dynamic Weather and Extended Time Cycles

Introduction:

So, I've spent about two weeks on building, tweaking and testing this mod. Good news - it works, bad news - it works not exactly as I intended it to. There are certain engine limitations and hidden algorithms that I cannot overcome (yet). I know there have been few weather mods for DL, but either those are outdated and not support latest content like The Following, have limited features or unclear installation instructions. In this mod I tried to focus on it and deliver as best experience and immersion as I could. This mod may still be considered as work in progress, but it's in completely working and safe state at the moment.

For better understanding the features of this mod and tricks to trigger different weather types at will, please, read Details carefully.

Main features:

- Reworked and rewritten 8 weather scenarios and added 20 different random weathers

- Dynamic change of different weathers during play

- Increased duration of Day and Night for better immersion

- Didn't touch Weather settings, just checked integrity, should be working on newest version no problem. Only updated merged version.

- Again, only updated Merged version for 1. 21. Weathers and Timecycles still work fine.

- On 1. 20 original mod still works, so no tweaking needed. Only updated Merged version for compatibilty.

- Tested on version 1. 19, seems to be working well, so no updates required. Merged version with GIH updated to new version in Optional section

- Updated to the latest game version 1. 16

- Checked weather and time-scale, they seem perfectly compatible with newest version. Just put small update on merged GIH-DWET optional file which you can check on it's dedicated page (link for GIH mod at the bottom).

It's quite baffling for me why developers didn't pay enough attention to weather in this game. Engine already has up 15 impressive different weather types, which only need a bit of tweaking and setting up correct algorithms for engine to read and hook them up. It's tricky to do when you don't know how exactly game treats those tweaks, but developers know it very well, and that would be a cake walk for them to do...

When I said it doesn't work exactly as I intended, I meant it's not completely dynamic and a little bit messed up, especially in The Following. There are different rules on how weather behaves in both Main Campaign and The Following. There are still some things I do not completely understand myself, but I'll try to cover both here as best as I can:

In Harran (both Slums and Old Town) it's pretty much dynamic and works mostly as it should. On initial game load it has a chance to hook up random weather scenario, but usually it may start as clear weathe