Friday 2011-02-04 Dev. update and Discussion

[luthier]

Originally Posted by Luftwaffepilot

What had this pc under the hood? Was it high end ?

Originally Posted by Luftwaffepilot

no answer on the weather is very very sad.

Originally Posted by T}{OR

So I heard - care to share the link where luthier said that? Nobody seems to have it.

Originally Posted by Dano

Where was this said?

Originally Posted by Luftwaffepilot

Source, pls.

Originally Posted by HFC_Dolphin

Let's hope this is not true...

Whoa.

I did post this on a Russian-language forum a few days ago.

The dynamic weather is extremely complex and done in-depth, more so than in any other sim. However its complexity is its downfall. It runs so slow, you can't fly with it on our large map. The physics kill the CPU and the complex clouds kill the video card.

Since complex weather was down the task list for the team behind FM, AI, various plane systems, and DM, we started on optimizing it too late and so won't have it working at sufficient framerate in time for release.

However we actually are shipping the weather in its current state with the game, accessible to the player via the FMB as a "play with it at your own risk" undocumented feature. And we will definitely be updating and improving it in the future.