Beta SkyCycle: Dynamic Weather 0.4.11

SkyCycle: Dynamic Weather
Seasonal forecasts. Changing skies. Weather you can drive through.​

SkyCycle adds persistent, progressive weather to BeamNG.drive in Freeroam and Career. Follow a five-day forecast as conditions evolve through morning, afternoon, evening and night, with rain, snow, fog and storms shaped by the map's climate and the in-game season.









Calendar, seasons and wind

• Follows BeamNG's native calendar where available. Changing the game's date updates SkyCycle's forecast; maps without a native date use SkyCycle's saved calendar.
• Seasonal temperatures and weather frequencies, with reversed seasons in the Southern Hemisphere when the map supplies its latitude.
• Italy and West Coast climate profiles, plus a generic profile and custom-profile support. Snow remains temperature-dependent.
• Nine weather states: Clear, Partly Cloudy, Overcast, Fog, Light Rain, Heavy Rain, Storm, Light Snow and Heavy Snow.
• Coherent daily periods and gradual transitions, normally lasting 1-8 minutes. Fast day/night cycles can shorten them to fit the current period.
• Live wind direction and speed in the forecast bar. The arrow shows where the wind is blowing toward, relative to map north.
• A shared prevailing wind direction across neighboring periods, with slow changes and optional physical gusts.
• Smooth native temperature-profile changes that keep the map's daily temperature timing where available.

Rain, snow and atmosphere

• Native world precipitation, variable rain/snow intensity and wind response.
• Interior-window droplets and exterior-camera water effects, with improved glass persistence and adjustable cabin fit.
• Shelter detection for covered areas and approximate cabin masking.
• Smaller, translucent animated rain impacts and player-vehicle tyre spray on compatible wet roads.
• Temporary wet-road shading/reflection adjustments and a visual snow treatment on compatible road materials. These effects restore the original materials when SkyCycle stops.
• Branched lightning, multi-pulse flashes and four credited real thunder recordings with a 1-5 second delay.
• Recorded rain on the vehicle roof, wet-road driving ambience and stronger rain/thunder audio.
• Gradual storm lighting, time-of-day fog behavior and optional traffic low beams in poor weather.

Readable forecasts and flexible settings
Forecast cards always show precipitation probability. Today's detail also shows current intensity, including 0% in dry conditions. These are separate values: a 60% forecast does not mean the rain is currently at 60% strength.

• Four particle budgets: Economy (2,048), Low (4,096), Moderate (8,192) and High (16,384).
• Optional adaptive quality with a selectable frame-rate target. It adjusts particle density within the chosen budget; it does not guarantee a particular frame rate.
• High-speed precipitation collision optimization, reduced idle work in dry weather and suspended precipitation rendering while the native large map is open.
• Batched road-material updates, with the map's authored reflections retained.
• Optional experimental weather grip for compatible native asphalt and dirt/gravel ground models, including community maps that expose those models. Existing wet, muddy, snowy and icy ground models are left alone.
• Particle-quality changes do not remove the optional weather-grip penalty.
• Celsius/Fahrenheit, three/five forecast cards, weather variability, reduced motion, sound, lightning, glass fit and droplet controls.
• Integrated dropdown controls compatible with BeamNG's interface.

Install or update

1. Download SkyCycle_Dynamic_Weather.zip and place it, unextracted, in your BeamNG User Folder's /mods directory, or update through the repository.
2. Replace the previous SkyCycle copy. If you previously installed a development build named weather.zip, keep only one active copy of SkyCycle.
3. Open a Freeroam or Career session. Add SkyCycle: Dynamic Weather through UI Apps if it is not already in your layout.
4. Use the forecast bar's gear button to choose your settings.

Existing SkyCycle settings and saved progression are retained by the update.

Compatibility and limits
Tested on BeamNG.drive 0.40.4. SkyCycle works independently; Trucking Unbound, After the Impact and Traffic Flow Lab are optional integrations.

Maps need compatible environment objects for the corresponding effects. Road visuals and grip depend on the map's materials and ground models. Interior glass masking is approximate: unusual cabins, open vehicles and some roofs may show masking or precipitation artifacts. Climate profiles are a gameplay model, not live forecasts or measured local climate records.

SkyCycle suspends itself for recognized competing weather controllers; running multiple weather mods together is not recommended. There is no BeamMP synchronization, automatic wiper control, snow accumulation, terrain deformation or separate weather per neighborhood.

Reporting an issue
Please include the game and mod versions, map, camera mode, weather condition, particle preset and any other weather mods. A screenshot and a short description of how to reproduce the issue help.

Field recordings are credited under CC0. Full audio sources and edit details are included in art/sound/weatherStead/SOURCES.md inside the mod archive.