Weather / Lighting

[Divot]

{Initially posted in the Area 51 site, but due to underwhelming response, I thought I'd spark up some discussions here ...}

Hi,

I had a thought the other day while looking at the sunset / night screenshots on the site ...

I don't know how or if Falcon4 & LOMAC do this (if at all), but do the FO gods plan on "dynamic" natural light? eg if you took off for a long range / deep strike mission at 5.00 in the afternoon and your TOT was say 6.30, would there be an obvious "dimming" or transition of the light from the sun from a sunset to dusk to night? Or pre-dawn to dawn to daylight? What about seasonal differences (summer vs winter)?

I am not expecting to see this in any of the initial releases, but I was wondering if it had been considered at all, and perhaps to what detail?

I know there has been talk of weather effects (especially in light of in-game comms), but could the level of realism extend to meteorlogical (sp?) patterns in the campaign? For example, Florida is currently being hammered by hurricanes, the Falklands are experiencing short days due to winter-time, and southern and central Europe are having heat extremes, etc, etc, etc.

Any ideas :idea: / suggestions :director: / comments :cussing: / nuggets of info from the FO gods :gleam: ???

Adam "Divot" Finster

[SUBS17]

Lomac has a sunrise and sunset, it also features the moon rising from the horizon. If you play some of the online campaigns you would notice this. If you look at the FO threads theres one about clouds Lomac or FS2004. They discuss FOs weather in that thread. You'll find that in the thread it is mentioned that online FO would use a weather information system for the weather. I think this would only apply to USA though. So if you lived in LA and its rainning outside, in FO online it would rain outside, likewise if you fly outside that weather system it would change. I think we'll have to wait and see but I'm pretty sure FO is going to be different to any other Sim in this department based on what has been said.

cheers
Subs

[jhook]

Hey Divot,
Sorry for the delay, as most of the Dev's are here in the states on vacation. OK, the weather, we have a weather model that needs to be tweaked out a little bit, but should include all of the proper models, such as lightning, snow and other weather aspects. I hope to have the weather straightened out by the demo release, but it may take longer than that to get it in. Dynamic lighting and other aspects that you are talking about should also be implimented at some point as well. This discussion has been delt with in previous threads. I hope this helps. :thumb:

[Divot]

Just out of interest, do you have the links to the other threads?

[jhook]

Just out of interest, do you have the links to the other threads?

Sorry, I don't have the time to look for them. I suggest that you use the search engine and type in the key word "weather". That will pull up those topics for you. I hope that helps you out. :smile: