The inability to manually change the weather conditions and the time of day on the fly, has been a long-standing oversight of game design in the Forza Horizon series, and continues to be the case in Forza Horizon 6. Fortunately, the old workarounds continue to function, allowing players to manipulate time of day, and various weather conditions, but only outside of story mode and normal free roam.
Build A Custom Route To Set Weather And Time In Forza Horizon 6
Begin by accessing the World Builder from Anna’s menu, then create a new Route. You will be prompted to select a car first, so just pick any for now.
Next, EventLab will force you into World Builder for prop placement, so simply skip this by pressing the relevant button prompt for your platform in order to Exit World Builder.
Select ‘Yes’ in the dialog to Resume Route to continue creating your custom route.
In this Route Creator mode you would normally be placing checkpoints and a finish line. You only need a finish line for your actual purpose, so drive to an out-of-the-way position which you can definitely avoid driving through yourself once the route is actually created. Once at that spot, press the relevant button prompt for your platform to access Options, then select Place Finish Line.
Select ‘Yes’ in the dialog to Finish Route and continue onward.
Save Route using Create New, and either name it manually or simply use the auto-generated filename, it doesn’t matter.
Select ‘Create Event With This Route’ in the Route Creation Complete dialog.
In the EventLab menu, you will have the opportunity to edit a number of parameters, including Event Settings. Begin by setting Max Number Of Drivatars to Off. Change Season at your discretion, but set Weather/Time of Day Mode to Custom rather than Freeroam, in order to exert player control over them. Weather has a number of modes ranging from Clear to Cloudy and everything in between. Time of Day can be set to broad spans of time rather than fixed hours.
Be sure to set Time Progression to Fixed rather than Rolling, as the weather and time of day would otherwise progress and deviate from your preferred settings.
Go back and select ‘Validate’ in order to verify this custom route.
Now select a car of your choice to Start Validation, where you can simply drive around your custom route with your personalized weather and time settings, while remembering to steer clear of your previously placed finish line.
You can always back out again if you get bored and feel the need to change the weather and time settings to suit your current mood.
That is everything you need to do so that you can drive around in Forza Horizon 6 with your own preset time of day and weather conditions.
