Weather

[PartyBoy]

It rains way to much it rains like everyday why are we not all flooded,
why not add a season system in  
when its summer its lovely ,
when its spring flowers bloom,
when its autum leaves turn brown and fall off,
and in the winter it snows ,
that would be nice.

I DONT LIKE THE RAIN IT RAINS TO MUCH

[beza1e1]

Yes, PartyBoy, i am getting depressive as well ...

[elminster]

The weather system WILL need some improvements - but I think it is not a priority now. Although, even in an unfinished game, eye-candy may come useful, to \"draw players\' attention away\" a bit from the other serious lacks.

Moving clouds would look fascinating (see newsky.zip in Crystal Space - it is possible) - if there are even clouds underground...

And in the future, the player should see when a storm is coming: dark clouds gathering, first thunder and lightning, only THEN should the raining begin.

Just a thought.

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[beza1e1]

There are clouds unterground if the space is big enough, which it definitly is. I heared from a science building (somewhere in America i think) which is few kilometers high and there are clouds ...

Planeshift world has water, space so the circulation of the water should be possible, from a physical point of view.

[elminster]

Then the clouds should be made, as they are possible to do with Crystal Space (the renderer behind PS).
See this: http://crystal.sourceforge.net/drupal/scrshots/newsky.jpg

For more screens of PS, and Crystal Space in general, see: http://crystal.sf.net
Click \"Screenshots\" on the left.

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[logan_dugenoux]

maybe there could be a spell that stops rain for a while ?

[Axioma]

A spell that stops rain ? that would be quite awkward. How do you see this logan ? could you explain your idea a little ?

I like the idea of the weather changing by season, but i don\'t know how you are going to implement snow. Snow has to fall, and stay where it is. How can you program the snow to keep there and just lie around, being white ? Seems like hell to code to me...

[hook]

i hate to be the one to tell you, but weather already has a thread

[beza1e1]

Originally posted by Axioma I like the idea of the weather changing by season, but i don\'t know how you are going to implement snow. Snow has to fall, and stay where it is. How can you program the snow to keep there and just lie around, being white ? Seems like hell to code to me...

The snow would be no hell to code i think, but a hell for your RAM and your graphic card ...

[Axioma]

Hehe, and I got the coding bit all wrong AGAIN. Nevermind. If it decreases your performance as drastically as you imply beza1e1, maybe we should think twice about implementing it in the game, because it doesn\'t seem very logical to me to be able to switch this option on/off. This doesn\'t seem logical, because it affects the entire PS world, and not just your pc...

[elminster]

Originally posted by hook
i hate to be the one to tell you, but weather already has a thread

Really? Where?

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[explorer]

The reason it rains so much is to show people that it CAN rain, and how good it is. I dont know if clouds would work too well, I know ran can be caused by the condensation, but clouds?

[Havena]

If you read the official planeshift site thoroughly you will see that the water works system as well as seasonal cycles and other environment effects to be are described in detail by the devs.

[hook]

Originally posted by elminster

Originally posted by hook
i hate to be the one to tell you, but weather already has a thread

Really? Where?

well AFAIR, there was a thread about rain, other weather and even seasons somewhere a few weeks ago

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by logan_dugenoux
maybe there could be a spell that stops rain for a while ?

This is totaly the spell I (rainmaker) am rooting for, and only I should be able to do it.....just kidding