add a client-side Weather-changer

[Ephemeris]

left-click = sun
right-click = rain
shift-right-click = storm

suggested item: ghast tear (looks like rain/snow, and is generally unused by other plugins, or default game)

Not sure if that's even possible, but it would be a great addition to the creative suite.

It would ease the building (many people get more FPS without weather),
and improve the filming (good or dramatic weather for the build tour).

[Peter200lx]

Will research into what is available from the bukkit API. This is lower on my priority list, but will be investigated thoroughly.

[Peter200lx]

Ok, initial research done, this is not possible with just bukkit.

I can build a (probably admin only) tool that can change the weather for the entire server, please let me know if you really wish for a global version of this tool.

However, I have found that this might be possible by directly manipulating minecraft packets.
http://mcp.ocean-labs.de/files/jd124/client/net/minecraft/src/Packet70Bed.html
Oddly this packet seems to be the only one referencing changing the weather. Sending a player one of these packets with bedState = 1 would tell the client to start raining, and bedState = 2 would stop the rain.
The problem is that this would require importing more then just bukkit, which I am not comfortable doing. Feel free to fork the project and build the tool with the additional import(s).

If you find a way to modify the clients weather using pure bukkit interfaces, or if you do want a global weather changing tool, please feel free to re-open this bug with how/why.

[Peter200lx]

This might now be possible as this capability has been added to Bukkit.

https://bukkit.atlassian.net/browse/BUKKIT-812
Bukkit/Bukkit#728
Bukkit/CraftBukkit#947

[Peter200lx]

Initial investigation not great. It appears that there is no difference for a player between WeatherType.CLEAR and WeatherType.DOWNFALL. Both of them start it raining for the player even when the server is clear. Running resetPlayerWeather() re-syncs the player with the server, but this is not the personal user weather I was hoping to see. Don't have time to investigate further today, will come back to later.