Hiding Day+Night Cycle/Weather effects?

I know there's been a lot of work done with Reshade for XIV, but I've searched and can't find an answer to this...

Does anyone know if there's a way to graphically hide the in-game day/night cycle and weather effects (for the purpose of machinima making)?

Or possibly even to set the level of day/night you'd like or the weather?

I realize this is a longshot, but it's probably the single biggest hurdle to recording clips for machinima (outdoors, I mean).

That is not possible, as the night cycle and weather are not simply postprocessing effects layered over the rendered game like a reshader would do.

I would love to be able to turn off weather effects. Maybe just a box we could tick in system configuration?

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Originally Posted by Zarabeth

I would love to be able to turn off weather effects. Maybe just a box we could tick in system configuration?

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Yeah, it would make machinima a LOT more manageable (and it would also be nice for people with lower-end computers).

The effects of weather/time on fishing, nodes, etc. would remain unchanged. It would be a purely aesthetic option.

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Originally Posted by Averax

That is not possible, as the night cycle and weather are not simply postprocessing effects layered over the rendered game like a reshader would do.

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This may be true for day/night but it's not impossible for weather effects. I know this because they did it with FFXI. We could turn weather effects off and on as we pleased so it's definitely possible.

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Originally Posted by Zarabeth

This may be true for day/night but it's not impossible for weather effects. I know this because they did it with FFXI. We could turn weather effects off and on as we pleased so it's definitely possible.

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Was that an official option in-game or did it require an external application?

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Originally Posted by Zarabeth

This may be true for day/night but it's not impossible for weather effects. I know this because they did it with FFXI. We could turn weather effects off and on as we pleased so it's definitely possible.

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Not with a third party application that is only capable of applying postprocessing effects. If it's ever possible, it will be via in-game option.

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Originally Posted by Averax

Not with a third party application that is only capable of applying postprocessing effects.

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That's great because it sets a precedent for SE including the option to turn off weather effects in their MMOs.

There was a weather off setting in FFXI and I didn't have third party anything. I had to turn it off because the computer I had at the time got damaged and that was one of many things I had to turn off to reduce lag from it. Before that point I could have everything turned on

I often wish that I could set the time of day for /gpose. rip

Hiding weather effects like Fog would be very helpful for lower end PCs. To make the game more accessible, this should be a thought the dev team should be thinking about imo.

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Originally Posted by RichardButte

Was that an official option in-game or did it require an external application?

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That was an official option in game. No 3rd party addons needed.

the issue might come in with the "new" minimum specs though, they are designed in such a way that you should in all reality be able to play it 30+ fps with everything at decently high settings. It would be hard to sell the "setting" strictly for the sake of performance given the minimum requirements now. That said with enough support it could still be done for "aesthetics" ... eventually when they can get around to it XD

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Originally Posted by Gumbercules

the issue might come in with the "new" minimum specs though, they are designed in such a way that you should in all reality be able to play it 30+ fps with everything at decently high settings. It would be hard to sell the "setting" strictly for the sake of performance given the minimum requirements now. That said with enough support it could still be done for "aesthetics" ... eventually when they can get around to it XD

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Minimum specs are all well and good but WoW didn't get to where it is by being exclusive to high end PCs.

Not really arguing the merit of allowing weaker pcs "access" but to use your WoW example, the PC i started to play wow on in 2004 does not meet WoWs current minimum specs and standards. I used to play WoW in a system that couldn't even render "transparency" for the water. Games tend to adjust their engines as much as possible to bring em up to the current generations weakest standards it is just the way of things.