Weather/Terrain effects. Surely this is the minimum we expect for CloD or the Sequel

Rise of flight has nice clouds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TCTDHO7Nw

[Skoshi Tiger]

[QUOTE=Bob_Marley;458836]Rise of flight has nice clouds.

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But they can't fix their trees!

[SiThSpAwN]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Clod has some very small maps too. They look terrible.

Well the graphics are global over all maps, they have to perform well on the largest, so you end up with the same thing for the smallest. If they only had small maps that would be a different story.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Mysticpuma

Shame you never experienced the Graphics and weather effects shown in the video above.

I did experience them. I still removed the game from my computer.

[SiThSpAwN]

While I tend to agree that more could and should be done with weather in CloD and future titles, I still have to remind people that map area does play a large part of what can be done with reasonable quality. This isnt an excuse for the devs, but comparing games that dont render the same square mileage probably isnt fair (not to mention other things going on under the hood)... now here is a really crappy ILS landing by me in A-10... these graphics are somewhat dated by what we have in CloD... but you get the idea right... weather shouldnt be given up on, but they also are not just something they can plunk in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mRsrPLO7BQ

SO in closing... I sorta agree... but not quite

[David Hayward]

The dev team said that they were working on dynamic weather, so they obviously realize that it's something that people want. Apparently it's not possible now on a map that is much larger than anything you will see on Wings of Puke.. Why is that so difficult for some people to believe?

[SiThSpAwN]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

The dev team said that they were working on dynamic weather, so they obviously realize that it's something that people want. Apparently it's not possible now on a map that is much larger than anything you will see on Wings of Puke.. Why is that so difficult for some people to believe?

If it makes anyone feel better, Dynamic weather in DCS games is a resource hog as well, and a real knock on FPS.

[airmalik]

Great weather effects in the original post. The water over canopy seems a bit overdone but still pretty good. What stood out most for me was the smoke and fire from the burning buildings. Most realistic smoke I've seen in a flight sim. It doesn't just rise straight up from the fire but appears to be roiling as it goes up. Also isn't a uniform thickness and has patches of thick smoke breaking away from the column. Very nice.

[Chivas]

ROF looks much better on my PC than that pic, but I still don't find the terrain believable. Although the latest ROF video of the float plane taking off and landing on water is amazing. COD terrain is OK, but it should get much better, when the community can fine tune it, and replace some of the trees with hedgerows etc.