Dynamic Wind Framework - SKSE Plugin

Mod Description

Dynamic Wind Framework is an SKSE plugin that turns Skyrim's static wind into a dynamic, fully reactive system. It modyfies a vanilla wind and provide it as a source that can affects animations, physics, objects, and visual effects, allowing modders to create immersive, wind-driven behaviors with minimal performance cost.

If you are here because some other mod requests this to work: just download and you are good to go.

Vanilla wind is static, always East or South-East  strenght depending on weather, no variation, no gusts, not immersive!

Simple idea: make wind dynamic, let the world react to it. This mod, which evolved into a framework, has multiple modules:

1. Wind Manager – the core of the mod. Controls:

- Global wind angle . This module randomizes the direction and adds a little jitter to it over time.

- Global wind speed/strength. This module adds immersive gusts to the wind strength and supports configurable min/max wind scaling, allowing weather wind values to be remapped into a different intensity range.

- Fix vanilla bug where wind is present in interior and cave cells.

2. Animation Handler – module that controls animation speed based on wind.

3. Tree Handler – module that controls vanilla tree animations. It can increase/decrease tree flexibility, amplitude, and frequency of trunk, branch, and leaf movement depending on wind strength and angle. It also controls UNUSED vanilla feature: Tree wind direction, so trees will tend to bend in the wind direction (Applay specyfically for trees like Aspen)

4. Rotation Handler – module that can rotate objects depending on wind direction OR snap them to allowed angles (very useful for two-sided blowable banners).

5. Push Handler – module that can push Havok objects in the wind direction. Works perfectly as a "Blow in the Wind" replacer.

6. Visibility Handler – module that controls object visibility based on wind strength and angle.

7. Base Object Swap Handler – changes objects so they reflect wind state (example: changes a non-blowing banner to a blowing one).

8. Model Swapper – can change just the object model without changing its base object or anything