Weather

(WIP) Research

The following have thus far been gleamed from videos to determine the 'rules' of XIV's weather system as far as what retail was doing.

• Weather in a given location can only change every eight hours, at, 00:00, 08:00. and 16:00
  • Weather can last more than one cycle
  • Weather transition times appears to generally be 5 seconds for open content, and instanced areas 1 second

• Cities do not use anything beyond the first four IDs in regular scenarios (ex. When event weather isn't in effect)
  • City weather is separate from the weather of the neighbouring field zone

• Some zones may inherit the weather of its parent zone?
  • Thus far it appears open dungeons take the weather from the field they're from
  • Inns and Grand Company offices might inherit the weather of their respective city? That or just a lot of coincidences found thus far in videos.

• Market Wards are always Clear weather?
• Merchants Ward (Waking Sands) is always Fine weather?

• Instanced content and PrivateAreas can set its weather irrespective of the zone
  • Ex. Ul'dah's intro tutorial in one video had Fine weather throughout the whole process and cycle, then once regular gameplay was reached it was Cloudy in the actual zone

TO-DO

• See if there's any patterns of weather required for the non-base four weathers. Ex. Can Stormy weather come on its own volition, or does it only follow certain weathers.
• Find more sources to further validate the above points made.
• Check Dalamud vids at somepoint to see if it applies to *every* zone permanently for that given update
• Check ferry vids to see if it's timed to a weather cycle along the way to match the zone it's heading to

Region Table

A list of which regions have files related to varying weather effects. The client appears to default to the first weather entry for that given region if one is set by the server which doesn't exist for that region.

Duplicated Region IDs were dropped as they all appeared to use the same weather.

Weather Name	Internal Name	ID	101 sea_s0	102 roc_r0	103 fst_f0	104 wil_w0	105 lak_l0	108 sea_s1	109 roc_r1	111 ocn_o0	112 ocn_o1	113 ocn_o2	202 prv_s0	204 prv_f0	205 prv_w0	207 000_10	208 prv_00	209 prv_i0	801 art_s0	802 art_r0	803 art_f0	804 art_w0	805 srt_o0
WEATHER_CLEAR	wtr_fine	8001	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅		✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
WEATHER_FINE	wtr_suny	8002	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅		✅	✅							✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
WEATHER_CLOUDY	wtr_clod	8003	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅	✅							✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
WEATHER_FOGGY	wtr_mist	8004	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅	✅							✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
WEATHER_WINDY		8005
WEATHER_BLUSTERY	wtr_stom	8006	✅	✅								✅							✅	✅
WEATHER_RAINY	wtr_rain	8007	✅	✅		✅	✅	✅				✅					✅		✅	✅	✅	✅
WEATHER_SHOWERY		8008
WEATHER_THUNDERY		8009
WEATHER_STORMY	wtr_bolt	8010			✅					✅	✅	✅									✅		✅
WEATHER_DUSTY		8011
WEATHER_SANDY	wtr_sand	8012				✅																✅
WEATHER_HOT		8013
WEATHER_BLISTERING	wtr_heat	8014				✅
WEATHER_SNOWY		8015
WEATHER_WINTRY		8016
WEATHER_GLOOMY	wtr_fogd	8017					✅					✅
WEATHER_SEASONAL	wtr_hall	8027	✅		✅	✅
WEATHER_PRIMAL	wtr_smmn	8028		✅	✅	✅			✅
WEATHER_SEASONAL_FIREWORKS	wtr_smmr	8029	✅		✅	✅																	✅
WEATHER_DALAMUD	wtr_comp	8030	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅												✅
WEATHER_AURORA	wtr_chry	8031	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅												✅
WEATHER_DALAMUDTHUNDER	wtr_xmas	8032	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅												✅
WEATHER_DAY	wtr_h001	8065	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅
WEATHER_TWILIGHT	wtr_h002	8066	✅		✅	✅				✅
???	wtr_h003	8067			✅	✅
???	wtr_h004	8068			✅	✅
???	wtr_h005	8069				✅
???	wtr_e001	8081										✅