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(Q) weather clouds as mission objects? - Thrud - 10.02.2009

is it possible to make different thicknesses and sizes of clouds to be used as mission objects in the same way that the Mount Suribachi is a large object. you would then place the object on the map and use the F4 button to set the height.

if these cloud objects exsisited, you could augment the OLeg weather, build storm fronts, obscure targets, have cloud layers, etc.

the idea came to me durring constuction of the NGNB map and it occured to me that in pacific climates the clouds ususaly hangout over the islands only, especaily in the afternoons, and olegs weather can't do this. i so i thought if we had our own clouds we could just place them on the islands and set the height like we do with the light and smoke objects.

can it be done? also it would have to not be a collsion object too.

- Guest - 10.02.2009

thats a bloody good idea

- Guest - 10.02.2009

VERY bloody good idea...!

- shakthamac - 10.02.2009

seems to me like you could simply scale up the size of the white light in the FMB stationary objects menu and change the texture on it. Its got all the other properties you would want it to have.

Of course, I have no idea how to do this

- F4U-1_Corsair - 10.02.2009

Light idea wouldn't work, because it is not scaled down at a distance, however, a entirely new 3d model, perhaps a chance to make better clouds, is a great idea.

- Thrud - 25.02.2009

bump

- Thrud - 26.02.2009

can i get someone to add it to a "to do" list?

Better Meteorology - Kopfdorfer - 21.04.2009

I think you guys are on to something here - I have always been interested in a greater variety of meteorology, and including cloud formations as moving objects is a wonderfully simple - in concept - means of achieving at least some variety in this regard.
You could construct formations of different sizes and cloud types, and weather fronts that had a (roughly) straight edge across a map, or a rounded edge, or as in some weather fronts, a spiral system.
And if they were under one of the Object Files in FMB that permitted movement it would add quite a scope of variety.
We already know that the art part of this is well in hand amongst the stable of modders.

I think the glove has been dropped.

von K

- Eexhaton - 21.04.2009

This would be awesome.

Clouds and Cloudformations as moving objects, brilliant idea! 8)

- zaelu - 21.04.2009

Object should be created like a dot or something without the posibility tu crash into and shatter your plane to bits. :lol:

And... undestructable too Big Grin .

- JAMF - 21.04.2009

zaelu Wrote:Object should be created like a dot or something...
Nah, the cloud should have a 3D model, which even the AI can not see through, but still fly through. Finally a cloud that obscures the 360 super view of the AI. :twisted:

- Guest - 22.04.2009

Proper thunderheads would be awesome, definately make flying during rain or storms interesting.

- Thrud - 14.07.2009

bump

- Bully - 14.07.2009

the clouds could be made like to move like a ship i you wanted them to. The only rpoblem for me is that how would you get the weather eg. lightning to work

great idea just more thught has to go in to how this would work.[/quote]