weather?

[bw_wolverine]

Just curious: how do other modern sims handle weather? I've seen lots of screens of that A10 game, WoP, and RoF, but apart from the clouds, I've not seen much indication of fancy weather systems. Can someone post screens from those games (if they have 'em) that show the storms/rain/etc that people want from CloD?

I know Rowan's Battle of Britain (and the Shockwave/A2A "sequel") has weather in it and that game is pretty old. It's also FAR more limited in its damage model and other things that I adore about IL-2 and Cliffs of Dover.

Actually, I'd be pretty happy if they just ported the BoB weather into CloD, but things are rarely that simple. I suspect that the weather they tried to impliment in CloD was far more modular and customizable as anyone who's looked at it in the mission builder will see.

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

Just curious: how do other modern sims handle weather?

I think Rise Of Flight is perfect example...I think it has best looking and immersive weather "system" in sim world....its one of the best parts of the ROF...rain, mornin haze, fog, night flights, seasonal land textures....really nice...ROf devs always introduce new features for immersion like dynamic cloud shadows, searchlights (WIP), ability to extinguish engine fire in continuous dive...such things makes difference for me...

@Trooper117 - youve been to harsh on me right from the start but no hard feelings...why do you think it too much for this zoo? Anyway it was intended to be as "relax break" as there are many "edgy" folks with serious performance issues and they are all passionate simmers.....

[Trooper117]

No drama at my end mate.. just maybe crossed wires eh?

Originally Posted by Trooper117

No drama at my end mate.. just maybe crossed wires eh?

is happens...no worries

[AMVI_Superblu]

We may need something like Falcon BMS 4.32 has for weather.
Probabilistic Weather settings with dynamic in-game changes based on what has been setted before mission start.
Would be awesome

[Jumo211]

Here in this GPU test video you can see a whopping 4MB custom detailed
bigger clouds texture , original texture is different and 1MB size
I am running CloD constantly with modded stuff .

S! HG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_yq92c73_8

[LoBiSoMeM]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

ROf devs always introduce new features for immersion like dynamic cloud shadows, searchlights (WIP), ability to extinguish engine fire in continuous dive...such things makes difference for me..

We already have the two first in CloD for sure... Didn't tested yeat if we can extinguish engine fire diving...

I believe that CloD devs aren't working in actual clouds and smoke effects for two reasons:

1) working in dynamic weather system - with local weather, etc;

2) working in DX10.1 and DX11 rendering.

That's a guess...