Faceless officers, fair-weather storms

[Grey Roger]

A couple of odd things showed up when I was investigating the problem with mutineers failing to show up: Unconfirmed Bug - Mutiny problem

Israel Hands and Ignatius Pell have no 256x256 interface pictures. So if you look through your characters while they're your officers, they look like this:


While cruising around waiting for a mutiny, I ran into a storm:

I've never seen blue sky in a storm in any other storyline. There's no question that it was supposed to be a storm, partly because of the "Roll angle" display and partly because I'd been on the worldmap and was caught by a storm cloud.

 

[Jack Rackham]

So if you look through your characters while they're your officers

I have never done that but I can add some 256 portraits next time.

I wonder if the blue storm sky could be an effect of me forcing the sky to "reset" from a very annoying
red sky that lasted for ever.

 

[Grey Roger]

I have never done that but I can add some 256 portraits next time.

I wonder if the blue storm sky could be an effect of me forcing the sky to "reset" from a very annoying
red sky that lasted for ever.

That would probably do it, though the obvious next question is, what caused the persistent red sky?

 

[Jack Rackham]

what caused the persistent red sky?

I had set it red because a location looked best that way and.... forgot about it.

 

[FrozenHeart]

I did encounter both problem.
1st problem very few that I do not remember where.
2nd problem almost always if started a new story/free play. Even afterwords...
There is no storm indicator up left and clear sky but changing from world map to 3D there is suddenly storm appears.

 

[Grey Roger]

Storms appearing without warning is a different problem. Presumably when you encounter such a storm, the sky is suitably dark and cloudy; the problem here is that the sky was blue.

If you find an officer with a missing interface picture, please remember to post a report including the officer's name, then we can see about creating a suitable picture.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I wonder if the blue storm sky could be an effect of me forcing the sky to "reset" from a very annoying
red sky that lasted for ever.

I assume that applies to one very specific point in the story; right?
If so, does that mean this bug would also trigger only once?

I've never seen blue sky in a storm in any other storyline. There's no question that it was supposed to be a storm, partly because of the "Roll angle" display and partly because I'd been on the worldmap and was caught by a storm cloud.

The "Roll angle" display showing up when it shouldn't sounds somewhat familiar to me.
If my memory is right, that was definitely not related to Woodes Rogers.

But I haven't played in forever and you regularly do; so if you've not encountered that yourself, perhaps it's okay after all...

 

[Jack Rackham]

I assume that applies to one very specific point in the story; right?

I made 2 tests (each several times):

1 set the sky to red and sailed into a storm. The storm sky was normal. The red didn't stay.
2 set the sky first to red and then reset it (like in the quest situation). Sailed into a storm and the storm sky was normal.

So either it's not this or I couldn't repeat it for some reason.

 

[Grey Roger]

Try starting from your savegame in your post about the mutiny problem:
Unconfirmed Bug - Mutiny problem

It was while waiting for a mutiny after loading this save that I ran into the storm which produced the blue sky.

 

[Jack Rackham]

Yes I ran into it too (at daytime).