Re: [Adonthell-devel] weather fx

[James Nash]

I like the sound of that!
The reflective water sounds very nice btw!! Especially if it's animated 
with a nice ripple effect - that would be awesome!

        -James


On Sep 22, 2004, at 09:24, address@hidden wrote:

> Driving through some nice landscape last weekend with cool weather fx 
> gave me the following idea:
> Each map should have a 'weather schedule' attached. I.e. a Python 
> script that controls special fx like clouds, fog, rain, snow, sunrise, 
> sunset, etc ...
>
> These scripts need to be per-map for the following reasons:
> - each map is different, so global weather fx won't work. There would 
> be no snow in the desert, only sand storms. Fog would be in forests or 
> near water.
> - Tuning the weather to fit to each map will vastly improve the 
> atmosphere of the game.
> - for performance reasons, the python scripts execution could be 
> simply disabled, thus stopping costly graphic calculations (the 
> scripts itself would be event based, so little overhead here)
>
> One particular idea for an effect I had was to have water reflect the 
> stars at night. Should be possible with an additional, transparent 
> layer on top of water tiles.
>
> Well, so much for that idea.
>
> Kai
>
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