WEATHER RELATED

VaporCZ · 2012-03-19, 12:47 AM

Saw when Higby was playing the game there may have been an icon showing a partly cloudy weather symbol. Will there have weather on the new game?

Eyeklops · 2012-03-19, 12:49 AM

Yes there will be weather effects. But the more important questions is will there be hot weather girls?

Skitrel · 2012-03-19, 12:54 AM

Yes, there is weather. Clouds also cast dynamic shadows. Night will be FAR darker when the weather is bad without moonlight.

noxious · 2012-03-19, 01:13 AM

I want snow. Snow is awesome and more games should have it.

RNFB · 2012-03-19, 01:54 AM

Snow would be awesome if it would pile up on people and vehicles realistically... but I guess that may be too much to hope for.

NCLynx · 2012-03-19, 02:22 AM

Originally Posted by RNFB

Snow would be awesome if it would pile up on people and vehicles realistically... but I guess that may be too much to hope for.

We can hide flight vehicles in and behind clouds, I would assume if they added in snow they could make it pile up and get in the way if they wanted to.

RNFB · 2012-03-19, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by NCLynx

We can hide flight vehicles in and behind clouds, I would assume if they added in snow they could make it pile up and get in the way if they wanted to.

The clouds aren't really physically simulated, it just obscures things. You would have to do some complex snow simulation to get it to pile up and react.

Skitrel · 2012-03-19, 02:42 AM

Originally Posted by RNFB

The clouds aren't really physically simulated, it just obscures things. You would have to do some complex snow simulation to get it to pile up and react.

Incorrect, the engine uses volumetric clouds, so they are physical.

Originally Posted by Interview with Higby

What are you most excited about in Planetside 2?
I am most excited about the world system and the territorial control system, for example being able to capture a ridge or a river bend. Also the engine is capable of things volumetric clouds where vehicles could fly in and hide in the clouds.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/p...2011-qa-70.htm

RNFB · 2012-03-19, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by Skitrel

Incorrect, the engine uses volumetric clouds, so they are physical.

What I mean is, do the clouds REACT to you flying into them? I doubt it. They may have volume, but no "collision".

MrSmegz · 2012-03-19, 03:06 AM

Is weather going to be in at Launch or one of those "near future" things like Orbital Platforms?

Skitrel · 2012-03-19, 03:12 AM

I believe, though don't have a source, but I believe Higby said somewhere that it was something they wanted for launch. Presumably it would get layered in during beta, it's definitely something that needs testing with many players flying around them if it does indeed have collision.

Skitrel · 2012-03-19, 03:45 AM

By the time PS3 comes out quantum computing will be a reality and we'll have seen leaps and bounds in computing far beyond anything you're envisioning here. Computing is very nearly at a point where it's going to absolutely leap forwards, with the entire architecture of computers as we currently know them turning into something else entirely.

NCLynx · 2012-03-19, 05:02 AM

Originally Posted by Skitrel

By the time PS3 comes out quantum computing will be a reality and we'll have seen leaps and bounds in computing far beyond anything you're envisioning here. Computing is very nearly at a point where it's going to absolutely leap forwards, with the entire architecture of computers as we currently know them turning into something else entirely.

Hey bro, beam me up.

Srsly though the weather is going to be sweet in this game assuming it's done right. Which so far it looks like it has been.

Skitrel · 2012-03-19, 05:15 AM

It's going to happen. There's been a tonne of very recent massive breakthroughs that are now making it a reality, IBM have announced that they're now planning on commercial products available 5 years from now after successfully demonstrating working qubits, so it's pretty big news.

http://www.zmescience.com/research/i...uter-28022012/

As well as other really interesting news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811199

Apologies for offtopic, just one of those things that really excites me because it's such a huge absolutely massive future for computing. The speed and power we're going to have in computers just 10 years from now is going to be ludicrous, things like human creative AIs might finally become a reality, and from there on who fucking knows, a human creative AI might be able to conceive of and create technologies that are completely beyond our abilities to even understand, and further still. To the point that we actually would be incapable of understanding how the tech we've got works because of it's over advanced complexity, only capable of understanding by an AI with the advanced computational power but still creative and innovative thinking that we have. Technology could actually become completely indistinguishable to magic at that point.

The future is fucking exciting.

/off topic

Eyeklops · 2012-03-19, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by Skitrel

It's going to happen....

(Insert text detailing the beginning of the end of humanity here)

The future is fucking exciting.

What you are describing reminds me of a Technological singularity, and I hope it does not happen my lifetime, or my children's, children's, children's, children's lifetimes. Or ever for that matter. Humans are at the top of the food chain for one reason only, our intelligence. Once an intellegence exists on this planet that grealty eclipses humans, prepare to enjoy being a slave, or battery, or dead, or whatever else it feels like doing with us.

Ok..back to topic.

I would like snow on vehicles, just make them decals. Also having rain make stuff look wet would be awesome. Don't forget dripping sound effects and lightening/thunder.