Day and Night, Seasons

[digidevil4]

It would be awsome if we had the option to have the lighting, the sounds in cities and similar things change with the Game time.
Night comes...
Street light go on

it doesnt sound like much but it makes the Game more fun

It would also be awwsome if the Environment it self on Rubi-Ka and the music would change in accordance with the date.

So during Autumn things are Quite gloomy and there are leaves on the floor, with the regular Forest music.

During Summer, Its brighter then usual, only slightly just so its noticable, the areas are generally lighter and the music is summer music, dont know how to descibe summer music, not like beach music.

During Spring you get alot more flowers around, regular lighting and lively Music.

During Winter you get snow everywhere, penumbra like music, that kool breathing effect u get in penumbra.

Snow would be difficult to make which is why it might be easyer to leave it out or just make thick circular rain.

Flowers and Leaves wouldnt be hard

The easyest way to make this happen would be to make 4 diffrent Builds of each map
e.g old athen

OldAthen_Winter
OldAthen_Autumn
OldAthen_Spring
OldAthen_Summer

So then When it is officially the first day of Spring the Servers knows automatically to Lock All the OldAthen maps except OldAthen_Spring, so people cant reenter if they happen to be in the previous one over the change.
In would say snow would be hard but FC did such a beutifull Job with Penumbra and they have all the nessesary models, Snowed Trees, Ect.

oh and in some maps of rubi-Ka the environment Changes Such as Deserts cause Deserts are areas Near the equator that have some low pressure or something like that. Assuming there is an equator on RK seeing as its livable.

[Eseb]

I like the idea. Bump

[Amordok]

you want to be GMs right ?

[digidevil4]

you want to be GMs right ?

huh?

[kuznechik]

It would be awsome if we had the option to have the lighting, the sounds in cities and similar things change with the Game time.
Night comes...
Street light go on

Like when you turn "day/night change"? Or was it "environment something"? I don't remember.

[digidevil4]

Like when you turn "day/night change"? Or was it "environment something"? I don't remember.

Im getting Confused by your posts, all of you explain what u mean by the question

yes I am British.
:S Sorta

[shadowgod]

theres already a day/night cycle in the game.

as for seasons... they dont exist on rubika. since theres only been limited terraforming for the areas that are populated.

[digidevil4]

theres already a day/night cycle in the game.

as for seasons... they dont exist on rubika. since theres only been limited terraforming for the areas that are populated.

untrue, there are Deserts and theres forests and swamps so it does have all the feature of a planet with seasons

And the Day/night thing ingame atm is not very exciting, never see Dark Oa, sometimes a bit dimer but not dark, never any street lamps

[mrpokeydelta]

untrue, there are Deserts and theres forests and swamps so it does have all the feature of a planet with seasons

And the Day/night thing ingame atm is not very exciting, never see Dark Oa, sometimes a bit dimer but not dark, never any street lamps

maybe RK does not wobble? or at least its wobble is so slight as to not cause seasonal change. maybe the wobble is such that the taraformed area is always facing the sun the same way.


there are many RP ways of glossing over this but the fact is your pretty much asking for 4 games, as all the meshes and the music would have to change for the seasons. aint gonna happen.

[digidevil4]

maybe RK does not wobble? or at least its wobble is so slight as to not cause seasonal change. maybe the wobble is such that the taraformed area is always facing the sun the same way.


there are many RP ways of glossing over this but the fact is your pretty much asking for 4 games, as all the meshes and the music would have to change for the seasons. aint gonna happen.

CAre to explain what happened to the shadowlands then?

[shadowgod]

CAre to explain what happened to the shadowlands then?

read the book AO is based on. it will explain everything for you.

besides the fact, the SL are on a different plain of existance, a different dimension, whatever you wanna call it.

[digidevil4]

read the book AO is based on. it will explain everything for you.

besides the fact, the SL are on a different plain of existance, a different dimension, whatever you wanna call it.

fair enough but im sure it doesnt say anywhere in the book that there cant be seasons, and as much as i want to read the book i cant print that many pages and reading off the comp screen is murder on my eyes

[Righteous]

No to Snow, it's a ****ing desert planet.

[Technogen]

IDK if youtube has a video of it but when you use to make a chr, you could clearly see a ring around RK. The only way to have a ring around a planet is if it doesn't wobble. On top of that the area that we live in is under terraforming control, and Snow isnt energy efficient.

Now, streetlights, like REAL lighting, would be an outstanding idea when the new engine comes out.

[Damon7]

Now, streetlights, like REAL lighting, would be an outstanding idea when the new engine comes out.

bamp for that! I'd like that.

[polartiger]

I don't get why there shouldn't be snow or something like that,
as there is also rain on RK,
and the terraforming techniques should be more advanced now?

[Righteous]

I don't get why there shouldn't be snow or something like that,
as there is also rain on RK,
and the terraforming techniques should be more advanced now?

maybe because it's NOT COLD ENOUGH!!!????

[Tethien]

untrue, there are Deserts and theres forests and swamps so it does have all the feature of a planet with seasons

Uh, your examples have nothing to do with seasons. They are very much geographical effects and we'd have all of them on Earth even if the turning axis of earth would be perpendicular to the plane on which we move around the Sun.

Anyways, having seasons on RK would be out of scale. Each region would have to be built several times and each update would have to be made on each seasons version. It would thus require much more effort than the possible gain would justify.

bamp for that! I'd like that.

Aye. Dynamic lighting is something we might see in the new engine and could even work with muzzleflashes and things like that.

[Technogen]

Because the planet is a hot one. Rain is easy when it's hot out, snow not so much.

[steeferwin]

Because the planet is a hot one. Rain is easy when it's hot out, snow not so much.

wel dun capton obfeus