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Outerra Engine => Ideas & Suggestions & Questions => Topic started by: Salmo on March 29, 2011, 08:46:19 pm

Title: Dynamic weather
Post by: Salmo on March 29, 2011, 08:46:19 pm

Outerra features description says "Real-time atmospheric scattering computations are used to render the correct atmosphere from all altitudes. A more complex atmospheric modeling library can be integrated as well."

1. Does outerra incorporate dynamic weather support?
2. Does dynamic weather vary temporaly? ie. varying weather at the same location at a different time.
3. Does dynamic weather vary spacially? ie. Varying weather based on where in "the world" you are.
4. Can the weather be user-configured?

Title: Dynamic weather
Post by: cameni on March 30, 2011, 02:58:31 am

There's no weather incorporated yet. When it is implemented, it will surely be dynamic in spatial and temporal dimensions - it would be a serious flaw, having a whole planet with weather being the same everywhere.

What kind of user configuration are you imagining?

Title: Dynamic weather
Post by: Salmo on March 30, 2011, 04:09:11 am

Quote from: cameni

What kind of user configuration are you imagining?

I'm accustomed to authoring combat flight sim missions with selectable weather types (no dynamic weather in my sim :( ) such as clear, clouds, hazy, rain, snow, blind. I guess by user-customisable, I mean will there be access to the weather/climate API's for developers to build user selectable weather types into their apps?

Title: Dynamic weather
Post by: cameni on March 30, 2011, 05:17:31 am

I'm actually expecting that once there are some weather "primitives" in place, someone will make an addon that manages weather according to real one, or by whatever people could want.

Default implementation should be something fractal based, changing in time.

Title: Dynamic weather
Post by: Spudly on April 04, 2011, 09:53:26 pm

You could probably partially build it off of the current cloud map.

http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/clouds.php

Title: Dynamic weather
Post by: cameni on April 05, 2011, 01:05:57 am

Probably using two last maps to interpolate between them, adding further fractal noise dynamically.

Title: Dynamic weather
Post by: Seth on April 06, 2011, 02:57:23 pm

Weather is so important in giving the feeling of realism.

When combined with a Day & Night cycle, obviously including dawn & sunset, it makes the weather look... I don't know where I'm going with this. Just that rain in the dawn/day/sunset/night is different.

But, that's what I like about this engine.

Title: Dynamic weather
Post by: Seth on May 01, 2011, 01:36:35 pm

bump.

?

Title: Dynamic weather
Post by: ZeosPantera on May 02, 2011, 10:29:44 am

weather after probably everything else. I presume it will come even after the release of the "game".