Violent Storm

Description

When a storm rolls in, make it count. This mod cranks the storm's wave physics: bigger swells, taller crests, deeper troughs, so any naturally occurring or modded storm in Windrose actually feels like one. Doesn't force storms to happen, only changes what they look like when they do.

This mod can go hand in hand with Perma Storm: https://www.nexusmods.com/windrose/mods/387 

Other weather states (Sunny, Cloudy, Rain, etc.) use different water presets and are not affected.

Installation instructions

1. Download all three files: `aaViolentStormB_P.pak`, `aaViolentStormB_P.utoc`, `aaViolentStormB_P.ucas`.

2. Drop all three into `<Windrose game folder>\R5\Content\Paks\~mods\` (create the `~mods` folder if it doesn't exist).

3. Launch the game. Wait for a storm to start naturally, or pair with `Perma-Storm` for guaranteed action.

To uninstall, delete the three files.

Main features

Patches a single file, `DA_WaterWeatherSettings_LargePipes`, the water-physics preset Windrose swaps to whenever the weather state becomes Storm. Every wave amplitude, choppiness and threshold value in that asset is scaled x1. 4:

Other weather states (Sunny, Cloudy, Rain, etc.) use different water presets and are not affected. Open-water base waves outside storm are also untouched.

This mod intentionally does NOT modify the rain, lightning, or fog particle systems referenced by `DA_Storm`. Those are Blueprint-driven and risky to hand-edit. Storm rain density and fog are unchanged from vanilla.

Compatibility

- Pairs perfectly with Perma-Storm. Perma-Storm forces storms to happen, this mod makes them violent.

- Conflicts with any other mod that overrides `DA_WaterWeatherSettings_LargePipes` (none known on Nexus at time of release).

- Does NOT conflict with Calm Seas. Calm Seas changes the probability table, this changes the storm's water physics. Different files.

- Stacks fine with ship-speed mods, combat mods, etc.

- Server-hosted multiplayer: water physics is rendered client-side, so this should work even when joining vanilla hosts.

Shout outs

crimson_med